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Bezig met laden... De slechtvalk (1967)door J. A. Baker
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And that’s the plot: man goes out, man watches falcon and other birds, man goes home. You’d think that this narrative, continued over 190 pages, would be boring. It’s not, for it’s sustained by the gorgeous prose and Baker’s unique way of seeing.
This extraordinary, poetic portrait of two peregrine falcons is one of the most beloved works of nature writing ever published. 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)598.96Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Birds Raptors, birds of prey Falcons, KestrelsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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De slechtvalk: slecht = gewoon (oudNed), Frans faucon pélerin