Falconry

New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1961. — 164 p. Not since the world began has there been a sport to compare with falconry. It is said to have been known in China almost four thousand years ago. It was most popular in Europe between 1100 and 1600. Then everyone who could buy a hawk or catch and train a hawk went hawking and talked hawking. The prioress of a nunnery, who...

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2016. — 296 p. — ISBN13: 978-1493017706. 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...

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. — 502 p. A few lines only are necessary to explain the object with which these volumes are put forth. At the time when the Badminton Library was started no modern encyclopaedia existed to which the inexperienced man, who sought guidance in the practice , of the various British Sports and Pastimes, could turn for information. Some books...

Second Edition. — New York, NY: Arco Publishing Company, 1978. — 162 p. — ISBN: 0-668-03339-8. This illustrated introduction brings the fascinating and dedicated art of hawking to everyone. With a fine regard for the birds used in a sport that has its origins in the distant past, the author has managed to produce a text that is informative, packed with anecdotes and yet...

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1859. — 339 p. The history of this work may be very concisely told in the words of an extract from Messrs. Longman's "Notes on Books" for last May: — "The papers of which it consists were originally written by "Peregrine" for the Field with the view of making British gentlemen familiar with all the details of a sport once so general,...

London: Horace Cox, 1869. — 106 p. Interest in the noble art of falconry continues. Though there is but a select group of falconers in this country who consistently fly hawks of one sort or another, there is a second and larger group who, for want of a better term, can be called "intermittent" falconers. The third and largest group consists of those who may never have taken an...

The Overlook Press, 2017. — 272 p. The essential handbook to the intricate sport of falconry, explaining all facets of raptor ownership. In this fully revised edition of his classic guide to falconry for beginners, lifelong falconer Tony Hall presents the most comprehensive information available to newcomers to the sport. Falconry Basics is specifically designed for novices and...

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1891. — 341 p. Falconry, like other field sports, has its literature. It would be strange if it were not so; for on turning over the pages of the world's history, it is apparent that for centuries it has played a conspicuous part amongst the diversions of people of all nations. But the literature of the subject has been much neglected. The older...

Vintage Digital, 2014. - 324 p. When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer — Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood — she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own....

London: Methuen & Co., 1900. — 311 p. Not with standing the large number of books, both ancient and modern, which have been written on the art of Hawking, it cannot be said that the Enghsh-speaking people generally have more than a very vague idea of the character of the sport, or the mode in which it was, and still is, conducted. Yet, in an experience of Hawking which extends...

New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 978-0871132451. The rite began when the author and two other biologists released ("hacked") four captive-bred peregrine falcon chicks on a cliff in the Montana Rockies. Within 24 hours, a golden eagle had taken three, and O'Brien, short-story writer and novelist ( The Spirit of the Hills ), rescued the survivor. An...

David & Charles, 1994. — 160 p. — ISBN13: 978-0715301425. Covering the five family groups - hawks, falcons, eagles, buzzards and owls — this is a detailed and practical guide to training birds of prey. It discusses the merits of keeping and flying birds from each group, paying particular attention to owls, and provides advice on pursuing the sport successfully, emphasizing...

Second Edition. — New York, NY: H.Z. Walck, 1976. — 112 p. — ISBN13: 978-0809839261. In the mid-1930s, Jack Samson had charge of the live hawks, falcons, and owls at New York's Bear Mountain Srare Park outdoor wildlife interpretive exhibitions operated by the American Museum of Natural History. Peregrine falcons still nested then — long before DDT spread its curse over the land...

London: Thomas Purfoot, 1611. — 381 p. A Description of all kindes of Hawkes that are in use, and their properties. The reclayming, jmping, mewing, and fleeyng, both the Field and River, of the same Hawkes. Their diseases and cures, and all such speciali points as in any wise appertaine to that most excellent and Gentleman-like qualitie. Also a little Treatise translated out of...

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1951. — 215 p. What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T.H. White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham's Repose , was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence — "the bird reverted to a feral state" — seized his imagination, and, White later wrote, "A...