H is for hawk
Macdonald, Helen, 1970-2015
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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. This book 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.
Main title:
H is for hawk / Helen Macdonald.
Author:
Macdonald, Helen, 1970-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, [2015]
Collation:
300 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2014.Includes bibliographical references.
Awards:
Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014; Costa Book of the Year 2014
ISBN:
9780099575450 (pbk)
Dewey class:
598.944092598.944598.944 MAC598.944MAC598.944092 MAC598.944092MAC
Local class:
598.944 MAC
Language:
English
BRN:
1696482