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H Is for Hawk
by MacDonald, Helen
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0670069558
- ISBN 13
- 9780670069552
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2014 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition. "... the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these Raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own." Winner of the Costa Award and thee Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction in 2014. 200p. bibliography.
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
- KALAMOS BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040281
- Title
- H Is for Hawk
- Author
- MacDonald, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Canadian Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670069558
- ISBN 13
- 9780670069552
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Hawks, Raptors Goshawk Birds Ornithology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Birds;
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