The peregrine / J.A. Baker ; introduction by Robert Macfarlane.
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| Series: | New York Review Books classics
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 191 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1967. With new introd. Bib#: 1491202 |
| Series: | New York Review Books classics
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| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 1590171330 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Bib#: | 1491202 |
