H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0224097008
- ISBN 13
- 9780224097000
- Seller
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BACUP, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
From the dustwrapper blurb: Destined to be a classic of nature writing, "H is for Hawk" is a record of a spiritual journey – an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming.
Hardback in dustwrapper. pp [10], 300, [2]. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inches approx. (222mm x 144mm).
Dustwrapper rubbed and worn to extremities; a little rolled/creased to top edge; some light scoring and indentations to front panel; a touch dusty. Front board showing multiple 'blunt dart point' indentations; no inscriptions; pages clean.
Overall, showing some light wear otherwise a nice, clean copy – attractive.
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DBZ1485
- Title
- H is for Hawk
- Author
- Helen Macdonald
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224097008
- ISBN 13
- 9780224097000
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Literature, Natural History, Birds, Ornithology, Hawking, Hunting
Terms of Sale
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