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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 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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Werner Herzog recommends that you read this book if you want to learn how to make films. After reading this, I'm not sure I'm now completely ready to make the next indie film.HOWEVER-if you want to learn about what it's like to fall in love with a wild thing, to get inside the mind of a hawk, and get thoroughly schooled on how to write beautiful, luscious, descriptive prose, this book is the best example of why we love wild things and how to become a better writer too.After I get a copy for my

He walks around and looks at birds and writes about them real good

This is just the most wonderfully poetic account of one man's year long exploration of the lifestyle of peregrines in the unnamed yet I assumed East Anglian area of the mid 1960's. Just beautiful. On almost every page there is a wonderful simile or collective noun and his prose is the stuff for which fruity voices were made. He does stray on a number of occasions into prose so purple a whole college of Bishops could dress themselves in it but there are so many breathtaking phrases that I could

Probably the finest natural history book I've ever read and a book of the highest literary merit in its own right. Some of the language is even more memorable than Proust. The wren 'like a little brown priest in a congregation of leaves.' Wonderful!

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

4.5*Ah, I recognise cycle navigating that chilly mud from my fenland childhood.This seemed like it was written in a slower time, free from todays anxious rush to no more important endeavour. Plentiful intricate detail given for reflection and creative seasonal simile/metaphor. The Peregrines movement and appearance leaves Baker awestruck ....but it is rarely reduced to anthropomorphic sweetness (Baker acknowledges this), more glassy eyed singular absence, the overwhelming indifference of nature

I read an article about this book recently, celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication. https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...The book is every bit as stunning as the article suggests. It was written as an elegy for these beautiful raptors, which 50 years ago were on the brink of extinction in the UK because of pesticides. Fortunately things have changed since then and the Peregrine is now safe again. The book is the result of 10 years of observation, distilled into one period from