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J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Luminaries such as Ted Hughes, Barry Lopez and Andrew Motion have cited it as one of the most important books in twentieth-century nature writing.Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine ...

A newly reissued paperback edition of a classic in lyrical nature writing. J.A. Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the peregrines who spend their winter hunting flocks of pigeons and waders on the flat marshes of the Essex coast. Includes its companion volume, "The Hill Of Summer", and original diary entries.