About the book: 1991 / White Gyrfalcon. The rarest falcon on Earth, in the old days it brought glory to Russia and helped maintain peace. The author, a famous journalist and photographer, walked around the Putorana plateau, the banks of Issyk-Kul, Yamal, and Kamchatka before finding the nest of this bird in the lower reaches of Kolyma. The book tells about the history of falconry, about meetings with people who devoted themselves to the conservation of rare predators.