The Peregrine
内容简介
From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.
It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.
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作者简介
John A. Baker lives with his wife in Essex. He has had assorted jobs, including chopping down trees and pushing book trolleys in the British Museum. In 1965 he gave up work and lived on the money he had saved, devoting all his time to his obsession - the peregrine. He re-wrote his account of this bird five times before submitting it for publication. Although he had no ornithological training and had never written a book before, when The Peregrine was published in 1967 it was received with enthusiastic reviews and praise for his lyrical prose. Later that year he was awarded the distinguished Duff Cooper prize. He was also awarded a substantial Arts Council grant. His second book, The Hill of Summer, was published in 1969 and was also received with unanimous praise by the critics.
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读书文摘
游隼眼中的大地，仿佛船只驶入港湾时，水手眼中的海岸。航行的尾流在身后逐渐消散，观察天际的地平线从两侧漂流向后。就像一位水手，游隼在一个川流不息、了无牵挂的世界。一个到处都是尾流和倾斜的甲板，沉没的陆地和吞噬一切的海平面的世界。我们这些抛锚、 停泊了的世俗之人，永远想像不出那双眼睛里的自由。
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