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H is for Hawk. (SIGNED)
by HELEN MACDONALD
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape, London, 2014. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Third impression of the first edition, issued the same year as the first impression. This copy signed by the author on the title page and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 300pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in black at the spine. The tiniest hint of spotting to the edges, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a single miniscule edge-tear. Ticket for the signing event laid-in. 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 #
- BC18302
- Title
- H is for Hawk. (SIGNED)
- Author
- HELEN MACDONALD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, London
- Date Published
- 2014
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