H is for hawk
Macdonald, Helen, 1970-2016
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As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, 'The Goshawk', which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. This book is a record of a spiritual journey - an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming.
Main title:
H is for hawk / Helen Macdonald.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2016.London : Vintage, 2016.
Collation:
333 pages ; 18 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2014.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781784871109 (pbk)
Dewey class:
598.944
Language:
English
BRN:
1551011