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100 1 $aMacdonald, Helen,$d1970-$eauthor.
245 10 $aH is for hawk /$cHelen Macdonald.
250 $aLarge print edition.
264 1 $aRearsby, Leicester :$bWF Howes Ltd,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2014
300 $a374 pages (large print) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aStandard print edition originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2014.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 8 $a'In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers' dark grail.' 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.
505 0 $aPart I. 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 -- Part II. 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.
586 $aSamuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, 2014
600 10 $aMacdonald, Helen,$d1970-
600 10 $aWhite, T. H.$q(Terence Hanbury),$d1906-1964.
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650 0 $aGrief.
650 0 $aHawks.
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650 0 $aSpirituality.
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