Cocker's brilliant description of his journeys in search of crows and ravens, birds that obsessed him and changed his life forever. A prose poem in a long tradition of English pastoral writing, it's also a reminder that 'Crow Country' is not ours, it is a landscape which we cohabit with thousands of other species. He uncovers the complexities of the birds' inner lives and the richness hidden in the raucous crow song. '}Crow Country{ is a significant, beautiful work' }New Statesman One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley.