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H is for Hawk.
by HELEN MACDONALD
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape, London, 2014. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 300pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in black at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's third book, an account of her year-long efforts to train a northern goshawk whilst gripped by the grief of her father's death; and also a shadow-biography of T.H.White. Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award..
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
- Clearwater Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SPE0275
- Title
- H is for Hawk.
- Author
- HELEN MACDONALD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, London
- Date Published
- 2014
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