Fly High Run Free

London, UK: Quality Book Club, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 168 pages, condition is very good. Jane Ratcliffe is one of Britain's leading naturalists. This is the story of her work, from an extraordinary childhood encounter with a swallow to her most recent battle against the winter of 1979. In the wild, injured or orphaned animals-and birds are doomed to die; Mrs Ratcliffe's special achievement over the years has been to rescue them without taming them. In her care they are restored. to health, trained to catch their prey and taught to fend for themselves in their natural environment. With selfless dedication Mrs Ratcliffe and her husband have reared and nursed back to health badgers, tawny owls, blackbirds, hedgehogs, foxes, barn owls, kestrels and buzzards. Their aim is always to return the creature to the wild, and in Fly High, Run Free she describes the dramas and satisfactions of her life and work on the fells.