The Peregrine

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.

Author: J. A. Baker
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 12/31/2004
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.18w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781590171332