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Cover of The Peregrine by J. A. Baker

The Peregrine

J. A. Baker

Published 1967

Baker followed peregrines across the Essex marshes for ten winters and wrote it down in prose so compressed it barely reads as nonfiction. He never explains himself, and by the end he has more or less stopped being a person in his own book. Nothing else on this shelf is written like it.