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klimts15thchild's review against another edition
informative
tense
slow-paced
3.0
As someone who skims past setting descriptions, this was not for me. Although I can admit it’s well written.
cheekylaydee's review against another edition
4.0
It gets an extra star just for David Attenborough's narration. He has a soothing voice.
erinpoo's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
3.5
“I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”
can't believe someone could write simply about walking around and bird-watching and do it with such descriptive elegance... having this much of a command on language is insane
a critic said this book was a master of nature-writing at work and i don't think that that is very far-fetched! baker's writing is very dense, and he twists words and thickens them to match the intensity of the images he aims to convey, and while he does at times stray off into a prose so overwrought and purple that the reader could almost wear it, the peregrine is overall such a beautiful and poetic scientific account of natural environments and this predatory bird. shoutout to ocean vuong for recommending this
adrebo's review against another edition
If you really like birds and lyrical prose, this would be an awesome book. I'm not super into either but I really liked the introduction regarding the biological facts of peregrines. It was once it got into the actual story that I fell off.
sneha_m's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Animal death, and Death