The Peregrine

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.

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