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Original Title:	The Peregrine
ISBN:	1590171330 (ISBN13: 9781590171332)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Essex, England
Literary Awards:	Duff Cooper Prize (1967)

The Peregrine

J.A. Baker

Paperback | Pages: 191 pages

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Title	:	The Peregrine
Author	:	J.A. Baker
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 191 pages
Published	:	December 31st 2004 by NYRB Classics (first published 1967)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Animals. Birds. Science

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From autumn 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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"A hawk's kill is like the warm embers of a dying fire."Like T.H. White's supreme The Goshawk (strangely never mentioned in any connection whatsoever in all that I've read about it), Baker's book is simple:Guy watches hawk.Now, there is a danger of oversimplification here, since Baker, at the time suffering from a debilitating arthritic condition that would eventually kill him, writes of spending six long months wandering the coast of East Anglia watching peregrines in action in a language so

I liked this book a great deal. I know the country described here and I have always been fascinated by the bird and animal life here. He evokes the mystery of the peregrine in an area that many would dismiss as either suburban (which it is on the fringes) or low flat land with little topographical interest. The author manages to combine a near mystical evocation of a predatory bird with vivid and perceptive writing about the Essex landscape. It is unmissable and a book to which I return.

A stirring account of one man's year long relationship with one of my favorite animals on earth - the peregrine falcon. So hard to review, this book is so beautiful and at the same time so completely repetitive. It crosses so many genres; it's like a nearly 200 page prose poem that is part memoir, part natural history, part travel narrative. The use of language is striking, and there are so many wonderful passages, but as the book moves along it's hard not to feel that all the pages sort of

When J.A. Baker published this book in 1967, it turned the world of birding upside down. He was not a naturalist or a previously published birder. He was, by his own admission, new to birding and his book is based on diaries he kept of ten years of following a pair of peregrine hawks in the fields and marshes of Essex near Chelmsford, in Kent his home in England. These are not day to day reminiscences but rather a detailed compilation of the ten years written in astoundingly beautiful prose

This is a really wonderful book. Incredibly poetic nonfiction about a man who follows peregrines through the countryside through the seasons. And that's it - that is the story. Throughout the book, the narrator becomes a part of the landscape of the hawks and seems to become one as well. The book's repetitions and poetry bring us back to an older world of sagas. This is not a "modern" book at all. It is a book about how nature can transform us with that rare commodity - attention.

When J.A. Baker published this book in 1967, it turned the world of birding upside down. He was not a naturalist or a previously published birder. He was, by his own admission, new to birding and his book is based on diaries he kept of ten years of following a pair of peregrine hawks in the fields and marshes of Essex near Chelmsford, in Kent his home in England. These are not day to day reminiscences but rather a detailed compilation of the ten years written in astoundingly beautiful prose

A daydream of a book.Baker decides, for no really discernible reason, to spend a season following some peregrines on the English Coast. That's it--that's the idea behind the book. There's not really any propulsive force to the story itself, it's kind of one damn thing after another, but is bewitching just the same. Because over the course of some six months Baker comes to slough of some of his humanity, approach the beast on its own terms--which is not to say nature red in tooth and claw or some