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H is for hawk [large print] Helen Macdonald.

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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. 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"--Dust jacket of a previous printing.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1410483614
  • ISBN: 9781410483614
  • Physical Description: 487 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-480).
Subject: Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964.
Falconry.
Goshawk.
Grief.
Spirituality.
Genre: Large print books.

Available copies

  • 5 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Harnett County Library.

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504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 461-480).
520 . ‡a"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"--Dust jacket of a previous printing.
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