Peregrine Spring: A Master Falconer’s Extraordinary Life with Birds of Prey Audiobook (Free)

Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan’s memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the partnership between humans as well as the natural world. Cowan stocks her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, as well as the lessons she’s learned from her birds. From retrieving her falcon from the neighborhood police “lock up,” to a heartbreaking race to save her youthful peregrine from attack by a crazy hawk, Cowan’s life is a continuing, ever-changing adventure. Cowan’s birds possess immersed her so much into their world that she’s discovered herself courted by a Goshawk and bossed about by a Harris’s Hawk. The book carries her readers along, therefore they, too, meet hawks and falcons in ways they never imagined possible.