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In a volume that blends history, memoir, and travelogue, the author of The Grail Bird shares his lifelong obsession with falcons, the subculture that exists outside of mainstream American society made up of individuals involved in the ancient sport of falconry, and the role of falconry in providing emotional solace in response to a turbulent childhood.
As Tim Gallagher was working on his book The Grail Bird, he was among the first to sight the long-thought-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas, which led to a multi-million-dollar effort to confirm the sighting and protect the bird's dwindling habitat. The sighting changed the direction of the book, for which Gallagher won the Outdoor Writers Association of America's Best Book award for 2005. Gallagher is editor-in-chief of Living Bird magazine and of The Journal of the North American Falconers' Association.
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