Contents

Cover

Title Page

Introduction by Mark Cocker

Notes on J. A. Baker by John Fanshawe

The Peregrine

Beginnings

Peregrines

Thee Hunting Life

The Hill of Summer

April: Woods and Fields

May: A Storm

May: The Pine Wood

May: A Journey

May: Downland

June: Beech Wood

June: The Sea and the Moor

June: Midsummer

July: A River

July: The Heath

August: Estuary

September: The Hill

The Diaries

Introduction by John Fanshawe

1954–1961

On the Essex Coast

Acknowledgements

Credits

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