H is for Hawk [First Canadian Printing]
de Macdonald, Helen
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 0670069558
- ISBN 13
- 9780670069552
- Librería
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"Destined to be a classic of nature writing, the story of how one woman trained a goshawk.
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. Whites tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes Whites 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 for £800 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. H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journeyan unflinchingly honest account of Macdonalds struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawks taming and her own untaming. At the same time, its a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White, best known for The Once and Future King. Its a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love. As John Vaillants The Tiger depicted the dangerous collision of people and nature, H is for Hawk evokes our deepest longings for something wild. With stunning language that that resonates long after the books conclusion, H is for Hawk is destined to be a classic of nature writing."
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts (CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 5263
- Título
- H is for Hawk [First Canadian Printing]
- Autor
- Macdonald, Helen
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Canadian Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670069558
- ISBN 13
- 9780670069552
- Editorial
- Hamish Hamilton
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Fecha de publicación
- 2015
- Palabras clave
- t.h. white; literature; outdoors; adventure
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Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts
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