The Peregrine 50th Anniversary Edition J A Baker Mark Cocker Introduction by J. A. Baker, Mark Cocker (introduction), Robert Macfarlane (afterword) 9780008216214, 0008216215 instant download after payment.

This extraordinary, poetic portrait of two peregrine falcons is one of the most beloved works of nature writing ever published. Such luminaries as Ted Hughes and Andrew Motion have cited this as one of the most important books in 20th Century nature writing, and the bestselling nature writer Mark Cocker has provided an introduction on the importance of Baker and his work.
A masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction (Robert Macfarlane). One of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read (Barry Lopez). One book I would ask you to read if you want to make films (Werner Herzog).
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.