H Is for Hawk Hardback - 2015 - 1st Edition
by Helen Macdonald
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- Title H Is for Hawk
- Author Helen Macdonald
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, New York
- Publication date 2015
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0802123414I3N01
- ISBN 9780802123411 / 0802123414
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 1.2 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 3.05 cm)
- Category Animals
- Dewey Decimal Code 598.944
- Quantity available 4
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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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Review summary
Readers widely praised Helen Macdonald’s lyrical prose and her candid portrait of grief refracted through training a goshawk, with many finding the nature writing vivid and instructive. The audiobook narration drew positive notes. The most persistent critique was the extensive focus on T.H. White, which many saw as digressive or intrusive and, coupled with a slow pace, left some feeling the book was padded or self-regarding. Others felt the White parallels enriched the memoir, resulting in a polarized but often admiring reception.
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