ALAN TENNANT tried to track the astounding journey of migration that the peregrine falcon makes from the coast of Texas to the Arctic. He fastened a transmitter to a bird and followed its track in an aircraft piloted by a former stunt flyer.
On the Wing is nothing less than a stupendous. Tennant is a superb writer. His prose is vivid, immediate, poetic and evocative, a sheer pleasure to read. You might think that such an endeavour cries out for pictures, but there aren’t any. They could not have aided this story of inspiration and adventure, including brushes with…
