An edition of Falcon (Reaktion Books - Animal) (2006)

H Is for Hawk

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H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
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An edition of Falcon (Reaktion Books - Animal) (2006)

H Is for Hawk

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.81 ·
  • 16 Ratings
  • 41 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 23 Have read

When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk, but in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T.H. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her challenging endeavor. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity and changed her life.

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Grief, Spirituality, Hawks, Falconry, Goshawk, Large type books, Spiritual life, Goshawks, White, t. h. (terence hanbury), 1906-1964, Authors, biography, LGBTQ biography and memoir, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2015-03-08, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fauconnerie, Autour des palombes, Chagrin, Spiritualité, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Human-animal relationships, English Authors, Biography, Falknerin, Tod, Vater, Trauerarbeit, Habicht, Dressur
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Helen Macdonald (1970-), T. H. White (1906-1964)

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Table of Contents

Patience
Lost
Small worlds
Mr. White
Holding tight
The box of stars
Invisibility
The Rembrandt interior
The rite of passage
Darkness
Leaving home
Outlaws
Alice, falling
The line
For whom the bell
Rain
Heat
Flying free
Extinction
Hiding
Fear
Apple day
Memorial
Drugs
Magical places
The flight of time
The new world
Winter histories
Enter spring
The moving earth.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-480).

Series
Thorndike Press large print peer picks

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Dewey Decimal Class
598.9
Library of Congress
QL696.F3 M324 2015

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Pagination
487 pages (large print)
Number of pages
487

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OL27190148M
ISBN 10
1410483614
ISBN 13
9781410483614
LCCN
2015024137
OCLC/WorldCat
912381944

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