Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan’s memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, offers us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan stocks her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she’s discovered from her parrots. From retrieving her falcon from the local police “secure,” to a heartbreaking competition to save lots of her youthful peregrine from assault by a crazy hawk, Cowan’s life is a continuing, ever-changing adventure. Cowan’s birds have immersed her a lot into their globe that she has found herself courted with a Goshawk and bossed about with a Harris’s Hawk. The book carries her readers along, so they, too, fulfill hawks and falcons in ways they never thought possible.