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Some Christmas book ideas for the armchair adventurer. By Paul Sullivan Date published: 12/3/2005
I N ARMY BASIC TRAINING, long ago, there I wonder what the old guy would think in today's world, where team playing isn't just important, it's everything--key to jobs, promotions, college admissions and many a trophy and accolade. And is, of course, heavily featured in those new U.S. Army recruiting ads. But the world has always had a place for that "individjul," even if many of them have a tough time finding their slot in life. Alan Tennant certainly had no trouble finding his niche. His incredible tale of chasing peregrine falcons across the Western Hemisphere is faithfully chronicled in "On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth With the Peregrine Falcon." Tennant could just as easily have called his story "The Individualist," as the reader is bound to wonder as much about the author as the incredible falcons that he follows. The name, peregrine, he relates, tells much about this swiftest of birds that wander across and between continents. Helping out in a falcon research project on the Gulf Coast of Texas, Tennant hooks up with another colorful character, an aging master aviator of the human variety. The two men run afoul of the law and the U.S. Army and head off north in a battered Cessna Skyhawk to track the migration of a young female falcon they dub "Amelia." Stand there with him, now, alone on a lonely windswept beach, as he deals with a frightened falcon he has captured in order to attach a miniature transmitter to her:
Date published: 12/3/2005
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