H Is for Hawk
de Macdonald, Helen
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0802123414
- ISBN 13
- 9780802123411
- Librería
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Southampton, New York, United States
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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
- Southampton Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 142377
- Título
- H Is for Hawk
- Autor
- Macdonald, Helen
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Like New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0802123414
- ISBN 13
- 9780802123411
- Editorial
- Grove Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2015
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