J. A. Baker
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the visitors from the uplands – peregrines that spend the winter hunting the huge flocks of pigeons and waders that share the desolate landscape with them. Including original...
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Luminaries such as Ted Hughes, Barry Lopez and Andrew Motion have cited it as one of the most important books in twentieth-century...
Author
Language
English
Description
J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Luminaries such as Ted Hughes, Barry Lopez and Andrew Motion have cited it as one of the most important books in twentieth-century nature writing. Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is...
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Durante diez años, del otoño a la primavera, J. A. Baker se propuso rastrear a diario a los halcones peregrinos que visitaban su región, en el este de Inglaterra, en una época en que se creía que estas aves corrían el peligro de extinguirse. Los persiguió con amor y obsesión, los observó en el aire y en la tierra: la forma en que volaban, cazaban, se alimentaban y descansaban, actividades que Baker registra con una combinación exquisita...