num_pages: 296
description: Peregrine Spring Nancy Cowan's memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school and the lessons she's learned from her birds. From retrieving her falcon from the local police lock up to finding her husband in bed with a gyrfalcon to a heart-breaking race to save her young peregrine from attack by a wild hawk Cowan's life is a constant ever-changing adventure. Cowan's birds have immersed her so much into their world that she has found herself courted by a Goshawk and bossed about by a Harris Hawk. The book carries her readers along so they too meet hawks and falcons in ways they never imagined possible.
language: English
title: Peregrine Spring: A Master Falconer's Extraordinary Life with Birds of Prey
publisher: Lyons Press