Nature Book Reader June 2020 - Flipbook - Page 89
pretentious; but he pulls it
off magnificently and I still
find it very moving. The
peregrine itself, of course,
remains for most of us a very
thrilling and charismatic
species — which has
interestingly gone from
being a bird of remote places
to a bird of our cities, but
still brings with it the spirit
of wilderness.
Further Reading
Selected Prose
and Poetry
by John Clare
The Birds
by Aristophanes
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