21st-Century Yokel

By Tom Cox£6.99
Status: published
Publication Date: 16.11.2017Available
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About The Book

'Glorious – funny and wry and wise, and utterly its own lawmaker' Robert Macfarlane

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.

'[An] entertaining walk through English folklore... he keeps us with him for the whole journey' Observer

'Tom Cox is an enchanting companion in this modern romp through treasured landscapes' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Signs and Clues

‘Simultaneously the funniest and saddest book about the modern countryside that I know’ John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowlands

'Wonderful, witty and moving ... A storyteller in entrancing form' Rob Cowen, author of Common Ground

A rich, strange, oddly glorious brew.
The Guardian

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