The peregrine
By: by J.A. Baker ; introduction by Robert Macfarlane.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Peregrine falcon -- England -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1967. With new introd.