The Peregrine

约翰·亚历克·贝克，英国作家，凭借其极富盛名的作品《游隼》获得1967年的达夫·库珀奖。他是土生土长的埃塞克斯郡人，一生都生活在当时还只是一个乡下小镇的切姆斯福德。他所受的正式教育于1943年结束，其时他年仅16岁。他仅写过两本书，全都围绕着埃塞克斯的乡村，特别是切姆斯 福德至海岸线的这片区域。他在完成《游隼》一书后即患上重病（也有说法是他在撰写本书时已经患病，我们不得而知）：先是类风湿关节炎，又因服用缓解关节疼痛的药物而患上癌症，最终于1987年12月26日去世。译者李斯本，伦敦大学金史密斯学院文学学士，伦敦政治经济学院传播学硕士。曾游历包括南极、北极在内的30多个国家和地区。

出版者:William Collins

作者:J. A. Baker

页数:432

出版时间:2015-3-26

价格:0

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780008138318

图书标签:自然英文原版British电影T小说Non_fictionC英国2018

Reissue of J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing

Despite 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 A Baker spent a long winter 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.

Including original diaries from which The Peregrine was written and its companion volume The Hill of Summer, this is a beautiful compendium of lyrical nature writing at its absolute best. Such luminaries as Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Ted Hughes and Andrew Motion have cited this as one of the most important books in 20th Century nature writing, and the bestselling author Mark Cocker has provided an introduction on the importance of Baker, his writings and the diaries – creating the essential volume of Baker's writings.

Papers, maps, and letters have recently come to light which in turn provide a little more background into J A Baker’s history. Contemporaries – particularly from his time at school in Chelmsford – have provided insights, remembering a school friend who clearly made an impact on his generation.

Among fragments of letters to Baker was one from a reader who praised a piece that Baker had written in RSPB Birds magazine in 1971. Apart from a paper on peregrines which Baker wrote for the Essex Bird Report, this article – entitled On the Essex Coast – appears to be his only other published piece of writing, and, with the agreement of the RSPB, it has been included in this updated new paperback edition of Baker’s astounding work.

读后感

《游隼》，写给大自然的情书。非常热烈，有点忧伤。 这种感受的直接由来，首先有赖于出色的中文翻译。作为一部通篇都在描写景物、抒发感想的自然文学作品，假如译者的文学水准稍逊，丢失了一些语感，大概会很容易沦落成为浮夸的、言不及义的“散文”。我不认识译者李斯本，之前...  

初读《游隼》，是在去年十一月。那时正值一段痛苦经历的开端，而我觉察到悲伤。某一个周日下午，我一个人在寝室，难受得喘不过气来。第二天，我读到《游隼》里的句子，诗性，敏锐，而基调带着无端的悲伤。那种感觉瞬间抓住了我。 我一直渴望成为外在世界的一部分，到最外面去，...  

我特别强烈想要了解猛禽的一切时，看了一些关于它们的书和电影。看克里斯托弗·诺兰的电影《敦刻尔克》时，看到天上的战机，我情不自禁满脑子想的也都是隼，尤其是出现了一句“小心敌机逆光袭击”的台词时。而确实隼的捕猎技巧被编入一战和二战时期的战斗机飞行员教程——由于...  

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一本非常文艺，非常素淡的书

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一本非常文艺，非常素淡的书

一本非常文艺，非常素淡的书

He walks around and looks at birds and writes about them real good