H is for Hawk
de Helen Macdonald
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
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- Librería
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Toronto: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada, 2015. First Edition . First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book in a very good dust priced dust jacket. The book has some pushing to the bottom of the spine. The jacket has wear along the flap and spine edges. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Award. A memoir.
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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Detalles
- Librería
- MDS Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 001831
- Título
- H is for Hawk
- Autor
- Helen Macdonald
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 2015
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Mississauga, Ontario
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Modern First Editions, Fiction, Poetry.
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