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Mark Cocker is a British author and naturalist. He lives and works deep in the Norfolk countryside with his wife, Mary Muir, and two daughters in Claxton. All of his eight books have dealt with modern responses to the wild, whether found in landscape, human societies or in other species. Cocker has written extensively for British newspapers and magazines including ''The Guardian'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Times'', ''The Independent'' and ''BBC Wildlife''. He has written a regular 'Country Diary' column in the ''Guardian'' since 1988 and a wildlife column in the international subscribers' edition, the ''Guardian Weekly'' from 1996–2002. He reviews regularly for the Guardian and the ''Times Literary Supplement''. ==Background and education== Cocker was brought up and educated in Buxton, Derbyshire, the gateway to the Peak District National Park. This early access to the spectacular limestone flora of the Derbyshire Dales and the specialised upland birds of the Dark Peak provided formative experiences in his evolution as a naturalist. He was educated at Buxton College, and studied English Literature at the University of East Anglia (1978–82), where he became immersed in East Anglia's nationally important wildlife landscapes, including the North Norfolk coast, Breckland and the Broads. These became the inspiration for the vast majority of 900+ articles on wildlife, published in national and regional newspapers. An active environmentalist, Cocker worked for the RSPB (1985), English Nature (now Natural England 1985–86) and BirdLife International (1988–89). In 1998 he received a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to explore the cultural importance of birds in West Africa (Benin and Cameroon). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Cocker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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