Falcons and Foxes in the U.K.

Download or read book Falcons and Foxes in the U.K. written by A. Lee Chichester and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-10-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A once-in-a-lifetime experience chronicled with humor and passion, this memoir details the life-altering 1995 summer during which a nature-lover becomes a hunter. One of those rare quantities, a woman falconer, Chichester discovered that her outlook on the world, nature, and herself changed radically during her pursuit of the ancient art in a foreign country. Training captive-bred, hybrid falcons; riding horseback to the flight of a falcon in pursuit of a crow, belting across the fells and pastures of the United Kingdom; the author deals with fears, preconceptions, and a very steep learning curve, after which she is changed forever.