Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Baker, J. A.; Macfarlane, Robert |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 12/31/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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 ofa pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followedthe birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit oftheir prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinaryfusion 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 implacableconsciousness of a hawk.
It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying,that these beautifully written pages record.
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