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H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
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H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
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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, BiographyShowing 4 featured editions. View all 12 editions?
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Table of Contents
| Part I | ||
| 1 | Patience | 3 |
| 2 | Lost | 12 |
| 3 | Small worlds | 20 |
| 4 | Mr White | 34 |
| 5 | Holding tight | 46 |
| 6 | The box of stars | 56 |
| 7 | Invisibility | 64 |
| 8 | The Rembrandt interior | 74 |
| 9 | The rite of passage | 82 |
| 10 | Darkness | 90 |
| 11 | Leaving home | 99 |
| 12 | Outlaws | 107 |
| 13 | Alice, falling | 120 |
| 14 | The line | 133 |
| 15 | For whom the bell | 144 |
| 16 | Rain | 153 |
| 17 | Heat | 158 |
| Part II | ||
| 18 | Flying free | 167 |
| 19 | Extinction | 178 |
| 20 | Hiding | 185 |
| 21 | Fear | 195 |
| 22 | Apple Day | 205 |
| 23 | Memorial | 214 |
| 24 | Drugs | 221 |
| 25 | Magical places | 232 |
| 26 | The flight of time | 242 |
| 27 | The new world | 249 |
| 28 | Winter histories | 258 |
| 29 | Enter spring | 269 |
| 30 | The moving earth | 276 |
| Postscript | 281 | |
| Notes | 285 | |
| Acknowledgments | 299 |
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| December 20, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| October 22, 2021 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| August 7, 2021 | Edited by New York Times Bestsellers Bot | Add NYT review links |
| August 6, 2021 | Edited by New York Times Bestsellers Bot | Add NYT bestseller tag |
| May 27, 2015 | Created by r. clayton | Added new book. |