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A Young Falconer's Walkabout: Hitchhiking Through Europe and Africa in the Sixties Hardcover - 2010

by Lawrence Crowley


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In early 1963, with the world on the cusp of innocence forever lost, a young and carefree Lawrence Crowley journeyed across Europe and Africa in pursuit of his passion for falconry - and a bit of fun and adventure. Money was scarce, but enthusiasm abundant. Sleeping arrangements were unused jail cells, the decks of ships, or sides of roads; the food, and sometimes lots of drink, challenged a cast iron stomach; transportation ran the gamut from a VW -Bug- to hitching rides with smugglers. Larry's descriptions of the ready friendship of complete strangers and his remarkable experiences working with renowned falconers transport us back to that time and place as we travel with him on his personal odyssey. A beautiful snapshot of a world and people now gone; we are reminded that this unique adventure could not be repeated today.

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  • Title A Young Falconer's Walkabout: Hitchhiking Through Europe and Africa in the Sixties
  • Author Lawrence Crowley
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hancock House, Surrey BC
  • Date 2010
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780888396662 / 088839666X
  • Weight 12.5 lbs (5.67 kg)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Library of Congress subjects Europe - Description and travel, Africa - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010459455
  • Dewey Decimal Code 799.232

About the author

Lawrence Crowley has been an avid falconer since his youth. He is a member of the Falconry Club of America, the North American Falconers Association, and the British Falconers Club. He was a founding member and first president of the Colorado Hawking Club, and for ten years was a member of the Deutscher Falkenorden in Germany, which he joined when he was serving in the US Army in Germany in the early sixties. After his release from the army in early 1963, he embarked on his 15-month falconer's journey throughout Europe and Africa, at which time he became friends with falconry luminary Jack Mavrogordato and met many other well-known individuals in the falconry world. In mid 1964, he returned to the United States where he taught science to junior and high school students in Colorado for 29 years. Lawrence Crowley is now retired and living in Colorado and works as a semi professional magician. He is also the author of Letters Home - The Sixties: The Army Days, self-published in 2005.
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