John A. Baker lives with his wife in Essex. He has had assorted jobs, including chopping down trees and pushing book trolleys in the British Museum. In 1965 he gave up work and lived on the money he had saved, devoting all his time to his obsession - the peregrine. He re-wrote his account of this bird five times before submitting it for publication. Although he had no ornithological training and had never written a book before, when The Peregrine was published in 1967 it was received with enthusiastic reviews and praise for his lyrical prose. Later that year he was awarded the distinguished Duff Cooper prize. He was also awarded a substantial Arts Council grant. His second book, The Hill of Summer, was published in 1969 and was also received with unanimous praise by the critics.
发表于2025-03-04
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J.A.贝克的《游隼》被归类为自然文学,但读过就知道它不止于此。自然辽阔,万物有灵有时是人尽皆知的秘密,时常被忽略。忠实的陪伴与分担者,将眼光黏附在高贵的飞行的灵魂之上,用时间和文字去描述那些城市里看不到的细节。 对读者来说,他那些克制、欲言又止的寂静叙述,不仅...
评分 评分按:本文节译自《landmarks》(地标)一书,由作者罗伯特·麦克法伦(Robert Macfarlane)授权刊于《私家地理》2015年9月十周年特辑别册,请勿转载。发表时有修改。 本章是对《游隼》一书的评论,欣闻该书中文版即将上市,本文或可有助于预热。 本文的翻译先于《游隼》,故引用...
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From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.
It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.
英文看得还蛮吃力的,关键其实蛮枯燥的,十年如一日观察同一种鸟。适合鸟类爱好者。中译本好评如潮是因为翻译好,有诗意的享受。但英文只有偶尔的迷离、与隼的对峙比较有意思,绝大部分都只是语言科学般的精确。对了,对照鸟书的英文索引看还不错,游隼猎物一览!哈哈哈。
评分听完有声书,比想象中要残酷一些(不乏血腥场面的描写)| 非常有共鸣的一本书,也想像Baker观察游隼那样从观察一棵树到成为一棵树
评分一本非常文艺,非常素淡的书
评分★★★★★★★★★★……
评分英文看得还蛮吃力的,关键其实蛮枯燥的,十年如一日观察同一种鸟。适合鸟类爱好者。中译本好评如潮是因为翻译好,有诗意的享受。但英文只有偶尔的迷离、与隼的对峙比较有意思,绝大部分都只是语言科学般的精确。对了,对照鸟书的英文索引看还不错,游隼猎物一览!哈哈哈。
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