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it has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad." On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any ' nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read." Werner Herzog called it the "one book I would ask you to read if you want to make films," and said elsewhere ". Robert Macfarlane deemed The Peregrine to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book. A.John Alec Baker (6 August 1926 – 26 December 1987) was an English author, best known for The Peregrine, which won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1967.

Baker, Introduction by Mark Cocker, Afterword by Robert Macfarlane, Read by David Attenborough and Dugald Bruce-Lockhart

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Baker spent long winters looking and writing about the visitors from the uplands – peregrines that spend the winter hunting the huge flocks of pigeons and waders that share the desolate landscape with them. 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.ĭespite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Baker’s classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967.

Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, The Peregrine. The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads J. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing.