SubjectSay Goodbye to the Cuckoo
Softcover | 2010 | #180988 | ISBN-13: 9781848540620
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"[This] is the 21st-century version of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and contains an important message. Mike McCarthy's powerful and poignant
book is about loss: the loss of birds and birdsong from the British countryside. It is also a wake-up call, telling us that it might not be too late
to save what we have." - Tim Birkhead, Ibis - The Journal of the British Ornithologists' Union, July 2009
'Elegant and well written it may be, this important book is nothing short of environmental dynamite. Michael McCarthy has aimed a devastating broadside at our seemingly unshakeable complacency over the British environment. In Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo, he lays bare with meticulous clarity how we risk the virtual extinction of the 'spring-bringers' - his name for those migrants like the nightingale and cuckoo which help define our sense of season. He goes on to argue that in losing these birds, we sacrifice not just a wonderful and integral part of our biodiversity, we forfeit a portion of our very souls' -- Mark Cocker, author of BIRDS BRITANNICA and CROW COUNTRY 'A beautiful and important book' -- Simon Barnes, author of HOW TO BE A BAD BIRDWATCHER
'Elegant and well written it may be, this important book is nothing short of environmental dynamite. Michael McCarthy has aimed a devastating broadside at our seemingly unshakeable complacency over the British environment. In Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo, he lays bare with meticulous clarity how we risk the virtual extinction of the 'spring-bringers' - his name for those migrants like the nightingale and cuckoo which help define our sense of season. He goes on to argue that in losing these birds, we sacrifice not just a wonderful and integral part of our biodiversity, we forfeit a portion of our very souls' -- Mark Cocker, author of BIRDS BRITANNICA and CROW COUNTRY 'A beautiful and important book' -- Simon Barnes, author of HOW TO BE A BAD BIRDWATCHER
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