The Peregrine
by JA Baker
Robert Macfarlane says: Baker turned his bulging set of ornithological field journals into a 120-page prose poem. It’s astonishingly energy-filled
William Fiennes says: The way he describes the world outside him, particularly birds, is so electric. It avoids all the traps of rhapsody
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“Baker turned his bulging set of ornithological field journals into a 120-page prose poem. It’s astonishingly energy-filled.” Read more...
Robert Macfarlane, Literary Scholar
“It’s the story of this pursuit of the bird and how he came to feel a kind of affinity with it, and how he uses the bird as a symbol for the things he feels, or wants to feel, about the natural world.” Read more...
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