The Rites of Autumn

by Dan O ' Brien (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $4.07

  This book describes O'Brien's training of a specific falcon in 1986, according to traditional methods, while following the birds' autumnal migration route from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. The author has taken part in several government programmes to save the peregrine from extinction and has written Eminent Domain and Spirit of the Hills .

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.16

  The author's account of a 2000-mile journey from the Canadian border to the Mexican Gulf, with a young peregrine falcon he rescued from the wild. His purpose was to teach her to survive on her own. It is the story of one man's personal quest, searching for a balance between the wild and domesticity. Dan O'Brien has also written a novel, Spirit of the Hills and a collection of short stories, Eminent Domain . He won the University of Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1986.