| Description |
xvii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part one: Owned by a hawk. A different way of life ; I begin ; Meeting Injun ; The attack and the mission ; Compatibility on Injun's terms ; Goshawk in the bedroom ; Injun on "suffering fools" ; Moving to the right place ; People in kilts ; How high should you go? ; Thin ice and pheasants ; Hawkdogs ; Bird years ; The importance of being Injun -- Part two: A tale of two peregrines. Tapped for a new role ; Suspicious characters ; Licensed! ; Meet a bird named N-Z ; The dance begins ; Can he fly? ; Airborne ; Flying to despair ; Only optimists need apply -- Part three: A life filled with raptors. Bubba ; Contract attorneys and partnerships ; Summer flights ; Moving day for falcons ; Cowan's falcon "nursery" ; Tabasco ; Mosby, the gray ghost ; Emma's great adventure ; Jazz ; Lightning in a bottle ; Sidekick ; Winterizing Harris's hawks ; Making in ; Crash ; Well-groomed ; Scout ; Peregrine spring. |
| Summary |
"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 from attack by a wild hawk, Cowan's life is a constant, ever-changing adventure. Cowan's birds have immersed her so much into their world that she has found herself courted by a Goshawk and bossed about by a Harris' Hawk. The book carries her readers along, so they, too, meet hawks and falcons in ways they never imagined possible."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Cowan, Nancy (Falconer)
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Falconers -- United States -- Biography.
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Falconry.
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Birds of prey.
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Cowan, Nancy. (OCoLC)fst01554986
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Birds of prey. (OCoLC)fst00833096
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Falconers. (OCoLC)fst00919988
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Falconry. (OCoLC)fst00919992
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
9781493017706 (hardcover) |
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1493017705 (hardcover) |
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9781493018376 (e-book) |
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