The Peregrine
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First published in 1967, this classic of naturalist writing is a sharply observed elegy for a disappearing predator and its habitat. J. A. Baker shuns the human world in the pursuit of the peregrine falcon's inner life and shares its terror at the human encroachment on its territory. Veering from the mundane to the miraculous, Baker's self-effacing diary of a long winter in the wild is a triumph of pure and immediate description. "J. A. Baker's graceful, passionate and evocative descriptions of modern falconry, the techniques and the drama, may come as close to illustration as prose can." -John C. Devlin, New York Times
About this Author
J. A. Baker (Essex, U.K.) is the author of The Hill of Summer.
Reviews
"J. A. Baker's graceful, passionate and evocative descriptions of modern falconry, the techniques and the drama, may come as close to illustration as prose can." (John C. Devlin, New York Times)
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