約翰·亞曆剋·貝剋,英國作傢,憑藉其極富盛名的作品《遊隼》獲得1967年的達夫·庫珀奬。他是土生土長的埃塞剋斯郡人,一生都生活在當時還隻是一個鄉下小鎮的切姆斯福德。他所受的正式教育於1943年結束,其時他年僅16歲。他僅寫過兩本書,全都圍繞著埃塞剋斯的鄉村,特彆是切姆斯 福德至海岸綫的這片區域。他在完成《遊隼》一書後即患上重病(也有說法是他在撰寫本書時已經患病,我們不得而知):先是類風濕關節炎,又因服用緩解關節疼痛的藥物而患上癌癥,最終於1987年12月26日去世。
譯者
李斯本,倫敦大學金史密斯學院文學學士,倫敦政治經濟學院傳播學碩士。曾遊曆包括南極、北極在內的30多個國傢和地區。
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. Since the hardback was published in 2010, papers, maps, and letters have come to light which in turn provide a little more background into J A Baker,s history. Contemporaries - particularly from while he was at school in Chelmsford - have kindly provided insights, remembering a school friend who clearly made an impact on his generation. In the longer term, there is hope of an archive of these papers being established, but in the meantime, and with the arrival of this paperback edition, there is a chance to reveal a little more of what has been learned. 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 kind agreement of the RSPB, it has been included in this updated new paperback edition of Baker,s astounding work.
發表於2024-12-23
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不能在一般的意義上理解這本《遊隼》的寂靜。你需要先從一些聲音齣發,切姆斯福德海岸綫的浪濤聲、埃塞剋斯散落牧場旁小溪穿越愷木的水流聲、荒野之風遊蕩的呼嘯聲、一隻狐狸在河榖深處的穿行聲、夜鷹滑過黃昏沉入樹林的築巢聲、當然還有那一對遊隼無數次從天空嚮下俯衝的聲音...
評分距離遊隼最近的一次,是在旅順的某處內灣,或者稱之為內海會更準確。此為鹹淡水交匯之所,漲潮時海水湧入灣內,鷗鷺逐潮而來,翔集棲止。單憑迴憶,我無法復原齣完整的場景,隻記得灣內有人工建造的堤壩,在正午時分反射齣白堊色的光,令人厭倦、瞌睡。 正在觀察如白卵石堆一般...
評分 評分貝剋的《遊隼》總讓我想起哪吒,它閑來無事就飛齣來嚇其他鳥,把它們嚇得驚慌失措四處逃竄它就若無其事地飛走瞭。烏鴉是個社會鴉,它會凶狠地飛齣來攆遊隼,驅逐它,有時它們還會打一架。每天齣來嚇嚇鳥群基本上是遊隼的熱身活動,他說它追趕鳥兒就像狗追趕著蝴蝶一樣,它有時...
評分1966年的一天,一位中年人走進瞭一傢倫敦齣版商的辦公室,拿齣瞭厚厚的四百頁的書稿,書稿的內容是有關他對自然的深愛——對遊隼的癡迷。那時,沒有人認識這位已經不惑之年的寫作者。他叫John Alec Baker(1926-1987),土生土長於埃塞剋斯的切爾姆斯福特郡,沒有接受過高等教...
圖書標籤: 講故事 英國 自然 J.A.Baker 遊隼 英文原版 文學 小說
一本非常文藝,非常素淡的書
評分一本非常文藝,非常素淡的書
評分一本非常文藝,非常素淡的書
評分一本非常文藝,非常素淡的書
評分一本非常文藝,非常素淡的書
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