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Language
English
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Description
Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan's memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she's learned from her birds. From retrieving her falcon from the local police "lock up," to finding her husband in bed with a gyrfalcon, to a heart-breaking race to save her young peregrine...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Description
Italian visual artist Yuir Ancarani's exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this Middle Easterm gas state is on full display as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized falcons around on private jets, and take their pet cheetahs out for desert spins in their souped-up Ferraris.
Author
Series
Skybound saga volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Twins Kylee and Brysen must fight for survival in a remote valley called Six Villages as war approaches, she by rejecting her ancient gifts for falconry and Brysen by striving to find greatness.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Rain, a stained glass designer despite laws banning women from that craft, and Peri, whose family of falconers are untouchables scorned by all, join forces and hope their love will keep them safe from prejudices and looming disaster.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Kazakh
Description
Follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Elizabeth I mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: 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 the hawk?s hood and bells to the falconer?s gloves ? culminating in a dramatic demonstration of the hawk?s hunting skill. Bagram Ibatoulline?s masterful illustrations capture the vivid details...
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