Falcons and Foxes in the U.K.

About the Book

A “once-in-a-lifetime” experience chronicled with humor and passion, this memoir details the life-altering 1995 summer during which a nature-lover becomes a hunter. One of those rare quantities, a woman falconer, Chichester discovered that her outlook on the world, nature, and herself changed radically during her pursuit of the ancient art in a foreign country. Training captive-bred, hybrid falcons; riding horseback to the flight of a falcon in pursuit of a crow, belting across the fells and pastures of the United Kingdom; the author deals with fears, preconceptions, and a very steep learning curve, after which she is changed forever.

About the Author

A. Lee Chichester has been freelancing for 25 years. She has written another book, a young adult novel: The Secret of the Cibolo, co-authored with Billie Matthews (© 1988 Eakin Press). While published in literary, nature, falconry, and outdoors magazines, the majority of her credits are in electrical trade magazines.

As an accredited instructor of outdoors education, she conducts programs surrounding raptors and environmental conservation for groups ranging from 4-H to garden clubs. Currently living in Meadows of Dan, Virginia, she hunts two Harris’ hawks on a variety of game species native to her corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains.