H is for hawk / Helen Macdonald

By:

Macdonald, Helen [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Grove Press, [2014]Description: 300 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780802123411

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DDC classification:

Awards:

Samuel Johnson Prize

Summary: When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk, but in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T.H. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her challenging endeavor. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity and changed her life.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Main Library Reference Section	Circulation	C 92 M135h 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	123685d

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297).

When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk, but in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T.H. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her challenging endeavor. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity and changed her life.

Samuel Johnson Prize

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