Simon Cooper (5)
Autor(a) de The otters' tale
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- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 44
- Popularidade
- #346,250
- Avaliação
- 4.6
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 56
Go to google streetview and locate the village of Nether Wallop and even the author's house/water mill and you will envy the beauty of the countryside where the author lives.
I had to search for articles about the author because I wanted to know his story and why he is writing this excellent natural history of this family of otters that live in and near his home. I found two....
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/angler-lost-fish-otters-fall-love/
https://forumpublications.co.uk/simon-cooper-fly-fishing-agent-chalk-stream-cons...
The author really needs to complete his biographical sketch here on Goodreads because his story is as interesting as his books.
I was immediately reminded of another natural history of the English countryside and forest, [a:Richard Fortey|213020|Richard Fortey|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1205096050p2/213020.jpg]'s [b:The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature|29496108|The Wood for the Trees One Man's Long View of Nature|Richard Fortey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1510642955s/29496108.jpg|48765102]. Apparently England has no lack of excellent writers who care about the history and ecology of their country.
So, the book is about otters...it is elegantly written by a man who both fishes and writes for a living and it was totally engrossing from cover to cover because you can tell that Simon Cooper has totally fallen in love with this family living near his water mill. You also learn quite a bit about the history of otters in England and otters themselves along the way.
Excellent book.… (mais)