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This extraordinary, poetic portrait of two peregrine falcons is one of the most beloved works of nature writing ever published.

From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.

 

It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.

The Peregrine

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    A Paperback / softback by J. A. Baker, Robert Macfarlane

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      Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
      Publication Date: 31/12/2004
      ISBN13: 9781590171332, 978-1590171332
      ISBN10: 1590171330
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      Natural History Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This extraordinary, poetic portrait of two peregrine falcons is one of the most beloved works of nature writing ever published.

      From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.

       

      It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.

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