The Peregrine

The Peregrine
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781590171332
ISBN-13 : 1590171330
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Book Synopsis The Peregrine by : J. A. Baker

Download or read book The Peregrine written by J. A. Baker and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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