The Peregrine - Baker, J.A. / Robert Macfarlane (introduction)
KORTE INHOUD
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 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.
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2005Uitgever: New York Review Books208 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1590171330ISBN-13: 9781590171332Koop dit boek tweedehands
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191 pp. [Binding: Soft Cover] [BookCondition: Almost as new] [Publisher: New York Review Books] [Auteur: BAKER, J.A] [Uitgever: New York Review Books] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: The peregrine]
