The peregrine

Häftad bok. NYRB classics . 2005. 191 sidor.

Nyskick. "The Peregrine is one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read. Mr. Baker's patience, his discriminating and unsentimental eye, and his passionate deliberations are utterly captivating."
- BARRY LOPEZ
The Peregrine tells of a harrowing and enraptured journey to the limits of the human.
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 fenlands 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.
"A fusion of man and bird in a living drama that transcends any 'nature writing' of our time."
- JAMES DICKEY
"This book goes altogether outside the bird book into something less naive, into literature, into a kind of universal rapport ..."
-GEOFFREY GRIGSON, SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON)
"Baker's writing is cool as the pale sea round the coast, stripped as bare of superfluous adjectives as the ground he trudged on; the peregrine flies off the pages bathed in a light that never was."
- THE ECONOMIST