H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0099575450
- ISBN 13
- 9780099575450
- Seller
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Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
2015
VintageBook ,
Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize
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In excellent condition, with light wear around the corners
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An exquisite, aching mix of grief, falconry, history, and biography
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300 pages, 197mm x 128mm x 22mm
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100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
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
- The Library Kit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TLK45
- Title
- H is for Hawk
- Author
- Helen Macdonald
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0099575450
- ISBN 13
- 9780099575450
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2015-02
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays / Memoirs;
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100% of book sales goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW ($2,110.30 donated as of 14th May, 2024)
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