The Peregrine Audiobook (Free)

David Attenborough reads J. A. Baker’s remarkable classic of British nature writing.

The nation’s best voice, David Attenborough, reads J. A. Baker’s outstanding classic of British nature writing, The Peregrine.

J. A. Baker’s traditional of British nature writing was first released in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it continued to earn the Duff Cooper Reward, the pre-eminent literary reward of that time period. Luminaries such as Ted Hughes, Barry Lopez and Andrew Movement have got cited it among the most significant books in twentieth-century nature writing.

Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is defined within the flat marshes from the Essex coast, where J. A. Baker spent longer winters searching and authoring the visitors in the uplands – peregrines that spend the winter hunting the large flocks of pigeons and waders that talk about the desolate landscaping with them.