by Rebecca K. O'Connor
This is a wonderful book - jammed with jaw-dropping honesty, lyrical beauty, and enough information about falconry to intrigue.Ms. O'Conner writes of the journey she takes while training a peregrine falcon, and ties significant moments back to her not-always-easy life. A history of abuse haunts her,...
I have been impressed with the sport of falconry since childhood, so you can imagine my excitement when I had the chance to review Rebecca K. O'Connor's "Lift". All centered around falconry, Rebecca's memoirs cover her first year of training her first falcon, Anakin. Anakin teaches Rebecca about rel...
Rebecca O'Connor has recorded the story of a developing relationship between a woman and her bird as they become hunting partners. It's a rocky journey, marked by failures, frustrations, and fly-offs early on, but it gets easier. O'Connor understands that their success as a team depends on the two o...
This book introduced me to a pastime I knew nothing about, building a trusting relationship with a wild falcon pet. Over and over Rebecca O'Connor had to risk letting her beloved bird fly free in order to train it to work together with her as a hunting partner--a process of muddy, out-of-breath, he...
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