When it comes to the recounting of history, the focus has traditionally been on either wars or politics. However when it comes to places like the American west, the land itself has played as much a part in shaping what happened there – and indeed what is still happening – as either of these two traditional foci.
Following in the pattern established with the ground-breaking first edition of The Sibley Guide to Birds (or, as it quickly became known, for obvious reasons, in many birding circles, “The Big Sibley”), David Sibley has now divided his even larger and more extensive second edition of that book into a western and eastern volume to allow for easier portability and use in the field.
Falconry, steeped as it is in tradition and solitary as its practice out of necessity must be, is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.