Details
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Title
Peregrine
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Author
Baker, J. A
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Binding
Trade Paperback.
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Edition
Main
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Condition
Used - VG In Wraps. Faint Edgewear. Pages: 191.
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Pages
208
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
New York Review Books, New York
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Date
2005
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Bookseller's Inventory #
MASTER347250I
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ISBN
9781590171332 / 1590171330
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Weight
0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
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Dimensions
8.02 x 5.18 x 0.45 in (20.37 x 13.16 x 1.14 cm)
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Themes
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Library of Congress subjects
Peregrine falcon - England
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2004026521
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Dewey Decimal Code
598.96
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From the publisher
J. A. Baker is also the author of The Hill of Summer. He was a native of Essex, England.
Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind (2003), about wilderness and the Western imagination, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian First Book Award, among other prizes.
First line
East of my home, the long ridge lies across the skyline like the low hull of a submarine.
Media reviews
"...the book is a work of tireless outward observation, with an astonishingly inventive and precise prose style....Baker’s feet may be on the ground, but his gaze is skyward, toward the birds he envies." — Lisa Darms, Bookforum
"Remarkable...the lyrical prose hammers home the attraction of pitting predator against quarry." — Daily Telegraph (London)"A powerful evocation of East Anglia’s winter landscape, and an unforgettable portrait of a man’s passionate engagement with the natural world."
— London Review of Books
"The Peregrine should be known as one of the finest works on nature ever written…His words—precise, lyrical and intensely felt—seem to have been selected as if their author were under huge pressure, both from the depth of his feelings for the bird and the weight of experience he wished to impart…The only sadness about The Peregrine is that its author is no longer with us to be honoured afresh for his achievement."
— BBC Wildlife Magazine
"A nature study such as Mr. Baker has presented—not by any means restricted to the peregrine falcon—deserves warm praise for the remarkable perseverance and patience which has gone into its making, and when the observer is a gifted writer, as in the present instance, the result is even more gratifying."
— Daniel A. Bannerman, The New York Review of Books
"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
"This book goes altogether outside the bird book into something less naïve, into literature, into a kind of universal rapport…"
— Geoffrey Grigson, Sunday Times (London)
"…one need not know a hawk from a handsaw to take pleasure and profit from the book. It is an account by a curious, complicated man of a curious, complicated phenomenon, that will involve, instruct and excite a reader who can never hope and may never want to share the writer’s experience."
— Bil Gilbert, Washington Post Book World
"Mr. Baker is primarily a descriptive writer, and a good one, but his obsession has given him a kind of crazy empathy that lifts his book above mere observation."
— The New Yorker
About the author
J. A. Baker is also the author of
The Hill of Summer. He was a native of Essex, England.
Robert Macfarlane's
Mountains of the Mind (2003), about wilderness and the Western imagination, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian First Book Award, among other prizes. He is also the author of
The Old Ways,
Landmarks,
The Lost Words, and
Underland.
