H is for Hawk
by Macdonald, Helen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224097008
- ISBN 13
- 9780224097000
- Seller
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Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery. "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. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Lucas Booksellers (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46199
- Title
- H is for Hawk
- Author
- Macdonald, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0224097008
- ISBN 13
- 9780224097000
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2014
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Natural History, Ornithology, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History & Botany;
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