The peregrine
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Author
Publication
2005 - New York Review Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
47,750 words, Guess
Page Count
191 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21598286M
- ISBN-101590171330
- OCLC Control Number56982352
- Library of Congress Control Number2004026521
- LibraryThing563282
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- Goodreads1071726
Classifications
- DDC598.9/6
- LCCQL795.B57 B35 2005
Description
A masterpiece of nature writing. One man's decade-long quest to trail and and know the peregrine falcon, at a time when its extinction seemed inevitable.
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.
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- Anecdotes.
Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
Other Editions
- The peregrine
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