Learning to Fly: A Season With the Peregrine Falcon

Very Good used hardcover in very good dust jacket. Small stain on top edge of pages. Slight shelf wear and small crease at top edge of DJ.

In a wilderness setting of exquisite beauty and disturbing harshness, poet and naturalist P.H. Liotta spends one unforgettable season helping peregrine falcons learn to fly.  As he watches, unobserved, the progress of the young birds, Liotta writes in his log about what he sees; reintroduced to the Adirondacks, the fledglings must discover how to take wing, hunt, fend for themselves without so much as sensing man's role in the process.  Drawing from literature, philosophy, myth, legend, falcon lore and aerodynamic theory, Liotta writes lyrically about man and nature, and offers a remarkable investigation of the mysteries and meaning of flight.