Description
From the first time I saw deer moving like shadows across a frozen beaver pondfrom the first time I stood shrouded in pines, listening to the soughing spring windI knew, without the least doubt, that I was home at last So began Peri Phillips McQuays journey of discovery as she embarked on the fulfilment of her childhood dream to live in the wilderness. Written in poetically beautiful prose, A Wing in the Door is an inspiring, true story of adventure and growth, recording the difficulties and triumphs surrounding the survival of a human-imprinted hawk, learning to live in freedom. For at the heart of the book is Merak: It was only with the coming of Merak, the human-imprinted, red-tailed hawk that I was challenged to confront the truths of wild living in a way that I could never have understood in my dreams. With these eloquent words, the author celebrates the mystical bond we share with all creatures.
