The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition

Afterword by Robert Macfarlane

By:

J.A. Baker

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Paperback / softback

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Reissue of J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. 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. 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. Among fragments of letters to Baker was one from a reader who praised a piece that Baker had written in RSPB Birds magazine in 1971. Apart from a paper on peregrines which Baker wrote for the Essex Bird Report, this article – entitled On the Essex Coast – appears to be his only other published piece of writing, and, with the agreement of the RSPB, it has been included in this updated new paperback edition of Baker’s astounding work.

Author Biography:

Release date NZ

April 6th, 2017

Author

J.A. Baker

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Afterword by Robert Macfarlane
Edited by John Fanshawe
Introduction by Mark Cocker

Pages

224

Dimensions

135x216x18

ISBN-13

9780008216214

Product ID

25635723

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