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H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 85,556 ratings — published 2014
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as falcons)
avg rating 4.11 — 87,944 ratings — published 1959
Wildwing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as falcons)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,543 ratings — published 2010
Healthful Amusements, and Ingenious Exercises: Or the Nobleman's Pocket Companion in Sports & Recreations. Containing the art and Cunning in Hunting, (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Ready to Soar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.29 — 358 ratings — published 2024
Home Away From Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.96 — 852 ratings — published 2023
Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year through Japan’s 72 Ancient Seasons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.22 — 221 ratings — published 2021
For My Lady's Heart (Medieval Hearts, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,518 ratings — published 1993
Wounded Falcons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.76 — 110 ratings — published 2021
Play of Passion (Psy-Changeling, #9)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,480 ratings — published 2010
Branded by Fire (Psy-Changeling, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.26 — 34,739 ratings — published 2009
Raptors of Eastern North America: The Wheeler Guides (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.67 — 33 ratings — published 2003
Hunted (Spirit Animals, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,235 ratings — published 2014
The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.09 — 390 ratings — published 2017
The Snow Falcon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,028 ratings — published 1999
Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France 1553 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,749 ratings — published 2002
Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors In Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.27 — 150 ratings — published 2005
The Gyrfalcon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2005
The Raptor Almanac: A Comprehensive Guide to Eagles, Hawks, Falcons, and Vultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.11 — 19 ratings — published 2000
Hawks, Eagles, and Falcons of North America: Biology and Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.46 — 13 ratings — published 1990
Hawks at a Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.35 — 112 ratings — published 2011
American Kestrel: Pint-Sized Predator (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.44 — 25 ratings — published 2014
Peregrine Falcon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.26 — 23 ratings — published 2012
Return of the Peregrine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2003
Peregrine Falcon: Stories of the Blue Meanie (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2005
Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,649 ratings — published 2010
On the Far Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,437 ratings — published 1990
Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,237 ratings — published 2013
Birds of Prey of the West Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.75 — 12 ratings — published 2011
Peregrine Falcon: Endangered Animals Series (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1992
Ghost Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,527 ratings — published 2013
Falcons (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2005
Peregrine Falcon: Saved from Extinction! (Animals Under Threat)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2004
Football Genius (Football Genius, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,624 ratings — published 2007
Wings for My Flight: The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.39 — 49 ratings — published 1991
The Pilgrim Hawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,657 ratings — published 1940
The Goshawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,877 ratings — published 1951
Hawkmistress! (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,524 ratings — published 1982
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,466 ratings — published 1974
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,373 ratings — published 1967
Passager (The Young Merlin Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as falcons)
avg rating 3.62 — 668 ratings — published 1996
“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there. Books about birds show pictures of the peregrine, and the text is full of information. Large and isolated in the gleaming whiteness of the page, the hawk stares back at you, bold, statuesque, brightly coloured. But when you have shut the book, you will never see that bird again. Compared with the close and static image, the reality will seem dull and disappointing. The living bird will never be so large, so shiny-bright. It will be deep in landscape, and always sinking farther back, always at the point of being lost. Pictures are waxworks beside the passionate mobility of the living bird.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
“And for the partridge there was the sun suddenly shut out, the foul flailing blackness spreading wings above, the roar ceasing, the blazing knives driving in, the terrible white face descending – hooked and masked and horned and staring-eyed. And then the back-breaking agony beginning, and snow scattering from scuffling feet, and snow filling the bill’s wide silent scream, till the merciful needle of the hawk’s beak notched in the straining neck and jerked the shuddering life away.
And for the hawk, resting now on the soft flaccid bulk of his prey, there was the rip and tear of choking feathers, and hot blood dripping from the hook of the beak, and rage dying slowly to a small hard core within.
And for the watcher, sheltered for centuries from such hunger and such rage, such agony and such fear, there is the memory of that sabring fall from the sky, and the vicarious joy of the guiltless hunter who kills only through his familiar, and wills him to be fed.”
― The Peregrine
And for the hawk, resting now on the soft flaccid bulk of his prey, there was the rip and tear of choking feathers, and hot blood dripping from the hook of the beak, and rage dying slowly to a small hard core within.
And for the watcher, sheltered for centuries from such hunger and such rage, such agony and such fear, there is the memory of that sabring fall from the sky, and the vicarious joy of the guiltless hunter who kills only through his familiar, and wills him to be fed.”
― The Peregrine
