(1956) 2010 3rd edition. Hancock House Publishers. Surrey, British Columbia. Pp127. Title- page vignette illustration. Brown cloth gilt. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Notes: Originally published in 1956, this is Ronald Steven's exciting account of his adventures and discoveries in the training of a gyrfalcon. "Genghis is a gyrfalcon - perhaps the noblest and greatest of falcons - and Ronald Stevens an expert and passionate falconer. [Here] is the creation of that strange, tense, absorbed relationship between man and bird that is the very heart of a sport as immemorially ancient as it is unbearably exciting. Captured in Iceland, brought back to ...the Welsh Marches, slowly - with an agony of patience - Genghis is weaned from his first instinctive distrust and terror to acceptance, to understanding, at last to exhilarating co-operation... Taut, concentrated, personal, evocative ...the distilled essence of one of the most exciting sports in the world." Published simultaneously with new reprints of three other books by Ronald Stevens, Laggard, Observations on Modern Falconry and A Life with Birds, all also available from Coch-y-Bonddu Books at GBP 25 each. Special Offer: All four of these Ronald Stevens books - The Taming of Genghis, Laggard, Observations on Modern Falconry, and A Life with Birds are now available as a set for only GBP 75.
