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Thus begins the tale by Stephen Bodio, a lover of birds and nature, of the incredible connection between man and birds of prey. Falconry can be traced back over four thousand years and, as Bodio says, "it is amazing that the practice did not die out soon afterward when its first adherents starved."
With a new introduction by Helen MacDonald, A Rage For Falcons not only shares the history of falconry, but shows the personal side in a way only Bodio...
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Publisher
EagleWing Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
173 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
A Falconer's Guide to Training the Passage Red-tailed Hawk. A book for apprentice falconers wanting to know the basics of becoming a falconer. Shows a beginner falconer a step-by-step approach how to train a wild caught hawk to hunt; hawks are not pets. This is one of the most popular and widely referenced books on falconry focused on the falconry apprentice. The author is a licensed master falconer with over forty years of falconry experience - the...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
x, 326 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
The author shares his lifelong obsession with falcons, discusses the subculture of individuals involved in falconry, and explores the role of the sport in providing him with emotional solace in response to his turbulent childhood.
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Series
Skybound saga volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
471 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"The final installment in the Skybound Saga, starring young falconers who must fight for survival in a remote valley called Six Villages"--
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
35 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Description
"Join a young girl and her father, the falconer at a medieval castle, as they experience the joys of taking a goshawk out for a training flight. The girl leads readers through all the preparations and equipment needed for the flight -- from falconer's glove to the hawk's hood and bells -- culminating in a dramatic demonstration of the hawk's hunting skills."--From dust jacket.
Author
Series
Skybound saga volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
426 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Twins Kylee and Brysen must fight for survival in a remote valley called Six Villages as war approaches, Kylee by rejecting her ancient gifts for falconry and Brysen by striving to find greatness.
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Series
Skybound saga volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Orphaned twins Kylee and Brysen continue to fight for survival and power in the remote valley of the Six Villages.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
10) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
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A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
819 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Illuminating the end of the twelfth century and the notorious queen--Eleanor of Aquitaine--who dominated it, this sweeping, suspenseful tale follows Isabelle, a spirited, questing young woman, who defies convention--and her controlling, falconry-obsessedhusband--to lead an extraordinary life"--
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