The Peregrine Book (nature writing) Approx length: 432 pages
Where to find it: Print books: available at some libraries and for purchase at large bookstores, including BetterWorldBooks. E-books: Available at some libraries, and for purchase at large book retailers. Audiobook: Available for purchase from Apple Books and Amazon. Please feel free to message me if you are having trouble finding it!
What is it, in summary?: Nonfiction, a nature diary about the landscape of eastern England and the two peregrines the author follows throughout a winter.
What do you love about it?: The prose is breathtakingly gorgeous. Here's the opening:
East of my home, the long ridge lies across the skyline like the low hull of a submarine. Above it, the eastern sky is bright with reflections of distant water, and there is a feeling of sails beyond land. Hill trees mass together in a dark-spired forest, but when I move towards them they slowly fan apart, the sky descends between, and they are solitary oaks and elms, each with its own wide territory of winter shadow. The calmness, the solitude of horizons lures me towards them, through them, and on to others. They layer the memory like strata.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: * Role reversal: A "nature diary" from the peregrines' point of view, and of that weird two-legged creature who follows them. * Observations of the landscape and birds of a different region. (AU? :P )
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Not sure.
Content warnings: The author writes about the peregrines killing prey, so a warning for animal death.
The Peregrine (J.A. Baker)
Book (nature writing)
Approx length: 432 pages
Where to find it:
Print books: available at some libraries and for purchase at large bookstores, including BetterWorldBooks.
E-books: Available at some libraries, and for purchase at large book retailers.
Audiobook: Available for purchase from Apple Books and Amazon.
Please feel free to message me if you are having trouble finding it!
What is it, in summary?:
Nonfiction, a nature diary about the landscape of eastern England and the two peregrines the author follows throughout a winter.
What do you love about it?:
The prose is breathtakingly gorgeous. Here's the opening:
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
* Role reversal: A "nature diary" from the peregrines' point of view, and of that weird two-legged creature who follows them.
* Observations of the landscape and birds of a different region. (AU? :P )
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:
Not sure.
Content warnings:
The author writes about the peregrines killing prey, so a warning for animal death.