Peregrine Spring: A Master Falconer's Extraordinary Life with Birds of Prey
Book Details
Author(s)Nancy Cowan
PublisherLyons Press
ISBN / ASIN1493017705
ISBN-139781493017706
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank705,141
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
New York Times Bestseller
Best Book of 2016, New England Outdoor Writers Association
Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan s memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she's learned from her birds. From retrieving her falcon from the local police lock up, to finding her husband in bed with a gyrfalcon, to a heart-breaking race to save her young peregrine from attack by a wild hawk, Cowan s life is a constant, ever-changing adventure. Cowan s birds have immersed her so much into their world that she has found herself courted by a Goshawk and bossed about by a Harris Hawk. The book carries her readers along, so they, too, meet hawks and falcons in ways they never imagined possible.
Best Book of 2016, New England Outdoor Writers Association
Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan s memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she's learned from her birds. From retrieving her falcon from the local police lock up, to finding her husband in bed with a gyrfalcon, to a heart-breaking race to save her young peregrine from attack by a wild hawk, Cowan s life is a constant, ever-changing adventure. Cowan s birds have immersed her so much into their world that she has found herself courted by a Goshawk and bossed about by a Harris Hawk. The book carries her readers along, so they, too, meet hawks and falcons in ways they never imagined possible.
