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