(Download ebook) The Peregrine (New York Review Books Classics)
♥ J. A. Baker ♥
| #10513 in Books | NYRB Classics | 2004-12-31 | 2004-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.01 x.46 x5.13l,.49 | File Name: 1590171330 | 208 pages |
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| All the superlatives about this book are true.|By HappyGoLucky|Glorious observation of these avian wonders, over time and with respect. As a bonus the natural habitat and seasons of the peregrine's year are noted in sparse and vivid detail so rich it is more like a haiku poem than descriptive prose. I find myself re-reading sections of this book many times just to savor the be|||"...the book is a work of tireless outward observation, with an astonishingly inventive and precise prose style....Baker’s feet may be on the ground, but his gaze is skyward, toward the birds he envies." — Lisa Darms, Bookforu
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 r...
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