'Glorious - funny and wry and wise,and utterly its own lawmaker'Robert Macfarlane
'A rich,strange,oddly glorious brew'Guardian
Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018
21st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing,not quite a family memoir,not quite a book about walking,not quite a collection of humorous essays,but a bit of all five.
Thick with owls and badgers,oak trees and wood piles,scarecrows and ghosts,and Tom Cox's loud and excitable dad,this book is full of the folklore of several counties - the ancient kind and the everyday variety - as well as wild places,mystical spots and curious objects. Emerging from this focus on the detail are themes that are broader and bigger and more important than ever.
Tom's writing treads a new path,one that has a lot in common with a rambling country walk; it's bewitched by fresh air and big skies,intrepid in minor ways,haunted by weather and old stories and the spooky edges of the outdoors,restless and prone to a few detours,but it always reaches its destination in the end.
Publisher: UnboundISBN: 9781783527397Number of pages: 416Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'A rich,strange,oddly glorious brew'Guardian'(An) entertaining walk through English folklore...he keeps us with him for the whole journey'Observer'Like a British David Sedaris dedicated to a rural way of life,Tom Cox crafts funny and poignant stories out of observations and interactions - except his observations are of trees and his interactions are with squirrels'A.V. Club
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