John A. Baker lives with his wife in Essex. He has had assorted jobs, including chopping down trees and pushing book trolleys in the British Museum. In 1965 he gave up work and lived on the money he had saved, devoting all his time to his obsession - the peregrine. He re-wrote his account of this bird five times before submitting it for publication. Although he had no ornithological training and had never written a book before, when The Peregrine was published in 1967 it was received with enthusiastic reviews and praise for his lyrical prose. Later that year he was awarded the distinguished Duff Cooper prize. He was also awarded a substantial Arts Council grant. His second book, The Hill of Summer, was published in 1969 and was also received with unanimous praise by the critics.
From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.
It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.
按:本文节译自《landmarks》(地标)一书,由作者罗伯特·麦克法伦(Robert Macfarlane)授权刊于《私家地理》2015年9月十周年特辑别册,请勿转载。发表时有修改。 本章是对《游隼》一书的评论,欣闻该书中文版即将上市,本文或可有助于预热。 本文的翻译先于《游隼》,故引用...
评分1966年的一天,一位中年人走进了一家伦敦出版商的办公室,拿出了厚厚的四百页的书稿,书稿的内容是有关他对自然的深爱——对游隼的痴迷。那时,没有人认识这位已经不惑之年的写作者。他叫John Alec Baker(1926-1987),土生土长于埃塞克斯的切尔姆斯福特郡,没有接受过高等教...
评分1966年的一天,一位中年人走进了一家伦敦出版商的办公室,拿出了厚厚的四百页的书稿,书稿的内容是有关他对自然的深爱——对游隼的痴迷。那时,没有人认识这位已经不惑之年的写作者。他叫John Alec Baker(1926-1987),土生土长于埃塞克斯的切尔姆斯福特郡,没有接受过高等教...
评分《游隼》,写给大自然的情书。非常热烈,有点忧伤。 这种感受的直接由来,首先有赖于出色的中文翻译。作为一部通篇都在描写景物、抒发感想的自然文学作品,假如译者的文学水准稍逊,丢失了一些语感,大概会很容易沦落成为浮夸的、言不及义的“散文”。我不认识译者李斯本,之前...
评分一本非常文艺,非常素淡的书
评分本以为能看到作者“乘天地之正,御六气之辩,以游无穷”般的开阔,可惜只看到了一个孤寂受困的灵魂。
评分无法用语言表达我对这文字对痴。
评分听完有声书,比想象中要残酷一些(不乏血腥场面的描写)| 非常有共鸣的一本书,也想像Baker观察游隼那样从观察一棵树到成为一棵树
评分★★★★★★★★★★……
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