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An edition of H Is for Hawk (2006)

H Is for Hawk

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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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Grove Press
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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, Jastrząb, Pisarze angielscy, Sokolnictwo, Tresura, Żałoba

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Helen Macdonald (1970-), T. H. White (1906-1964)

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Table of Contents

Part I
1. Patience
Page 3
2. Lost
Page 12
3. Small worlds
Page 20
4. Mr White
Page 34
5. Holding tight
Page 46
6. The box of stars
Page 56
7. Invisibility
Page 64
8. The Rembrandt interior
Page 74
9. The rite of passage
Page 82
10. Darkness
Page 90
11. Leaving home
Page 99
12. Outlaws
Page 107
13. Alice, falling
Page 120
14. The line
Page 133
15. For whom the bell
Page 144
16. Rain
Page 153
17. Heat
Page 158
Part II
18. Flying free
Page 167
19. Extinction
Page 178
20. Hiding
Page 185
21. Fear
Page 195
22. Apple Day
Page 205
23. Memorial
Page 214
24. Drugs
Page 221
25. Magical places
Page 232
26. The flight of time
Page 242
27. The new world
Page 249
28. Winter histories
Page 258
29. Enter spring
Page 269
30. The moving earth
Page 276
Postscript
Page 281
Notes
Page 285
Acknowledgments
Page 299

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QL696 F32 M33 2014, QL696.F32 M33 2014

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hardcover
Number of pages
300
Weight
490 grams

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