How do you mean aspiring? As in a green horn aspiring to get your head wrapped around this, or as in aspiring to become one?

For the first one, here is my list:

  • Understanding the Bird of Prey, Nick Fox
  • Edmund Bert's treatise (because my obsession with goshawk pre-dates my involvement in falconry and combined well with my love of anchient language in that book)
  • Desert Hawking with a Little Help From My Friends, Harry McElroy
For the second possible meaning there was really only one:
  • North American Falconry and Hunting Hawks
As a pre-falconer, I read every book I could get my hands on, include one that I burned rather than give or donate because it was so aweful. I love books, but some really are only worth their value as tinder to spark a physcial (as opposed to a metaphorical) flame. Anyway, it was "the bible" that really got me over the hurdle to having a license in my wallet.