Falconer on the Edge（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　After a year of marriage, Rachel Dickinson’s husband, Tim
Gallagher, confessed that the gift of a falcon had pulled him back
into his addiction to the obsessive sport of falconry, the art of
hunting with a trained bird of prey. In an attempt to understand
her husband’s interest in falconry, Dickinson chooses as her book
subject Steve Chindgren, a falconer who never has conquered his
addiction. Married with two daughters, Steve lives apart from his
family five days a week. He makes the sacrifice to hunt sage grouse
with a falcon. Dickinson mines the peculiar psychology of the
falconer. Eventually she arrives at a sense of falconry’s allure:
the remarkable persistence required to train a falcon, the
unpredictable nature of the hunt, and the soaring exhilaration of
success.

　　Rachel Dickinson is a writer whose articles have appeared in
The Christian Science Monitor, USA Weekend, National Geographic
Traveler, Audubon, and many other publications. She is the author
of several books. She and her husband Tim Gallagher, an avid
falconer, live in Freeville, New York, with their four
children.