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H is for Hawk
by Macdonald, Helen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670069558
- ISBN 13
- 9780670069552
- Seller
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Wheatfield, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2015. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670069558 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Slant to spine. Rubbing on edges of d/j. ; 8.98 X 5.98 X 1.26 inches; 320 pages .
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
- A Good Read
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124923
- Title
- H is for Hawk
- Author
- Macdonald, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670069558
- ISBN 13
- 9780670069552
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- 0670069558
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