Nature Book Reader June 2020 - Flipbook - Page 39
wanted to know more.
For a boy on his first
a dream guidebook like
holidays to Sutherland with
no other.
corncrakes at the back of our
The Peregrine by J.A.
holiday cottage and divers
Baker is probably the most
on the loch behind, his was a
important non scientific
dream guidebook like
bird book written in the
no other.
second half of the twentieth
The Peregrine by J.A.
century. An extraordinary
Baker
is probably the most
book – apparently all true
important
non scientific
though possibly a novel
bird
book written in the
– about a man’s obsession
second
half of the twentieth
with watching
wintering
century.
An extraordinary
peregrines
in East Anglia.
book – apparently
all true
Writing possibly
unique ina its
though
novel
utterly
original.
–intensity
about aand
man’s
obsession
If nature
writing
has
with
watching
wintering
survived and
comeAnglia.
of age
peregrines
in East
in Britain,
Baker’s
Writing
unique
in book
its made
it possible.
intensity
and utterly original.
If nature writing has
survived and come of age
in Britain, Baker’s book made
it possible.
Further Reading
Highland Birds
by Desmond Nethersole
Thompson
The Pereguine
by J.A. Baker
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