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Title: Not the 1970's I remember
Review: There must have been a time warp of about fifty years between North Devon and the rest of the UK if this book is to be believed. The protagonist, Samuel, behaves more like one the characters in a John Buchan novel or from Swallows and Amazons. As I read it I kept going back to the copyright page to check if it really had been written in 1974 and not 1924; which is how it felt. But it did renew my curiosity about birds of prey which had laid dormant since I saw the movie 'Kes', released in 1969 and much more in synch. with the times than this book.
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