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Автор Robert Macfarlane
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This edition first published in Great Britain by Collins in 2010
‘On the Essex Coast’ © J. A. Baker, 1971. Published in
Introduction © Mark Cocker, 2010
Notes on J. A. Baker © John Fanshawe, 2011
Afterword © Robert Macfarlane, 2017
The 50th anniversary edition © HarperCollins
Cover art: Peregrine Falcon, English School (20th century)/Private Collection © Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images
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Contents
by Mark Cocker
J. A. Baker (1926-1987) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most important British writers on nature in the twentieth century.
When his first book,It has been thirty years since his untimely death in 1987, aged just 61, and more than four decades since the publication of his last and only other work,
