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An edition of Falcon (Reaktion Books - Animal) (2006)

H Is for Hawk

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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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Grief, Spirituality, Hawks, Falconry, Goshawk, Large type books, Spiritual life, Goshawks, White, t. h. (terence hanbury), 1906-1964, Authors, biography, LGBTQ biography and memoir, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2015-03-08, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fauconnerie, Autour des palombes, Chagrin, Spiritualité, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Human-animal relationships, English Authors, Biography, Falknerin, Tod, Vater, Trauerarbeit, Habicht, Dressur
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Helen Macdonald (1970-), T. H. White (1906-1964)

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Table of Contents

Part I
1. Patience Page 3 2. Lost Page 12 3. Small worlds Page 20 4. Mr White Page 34 5. Holding tight Page 46 6. The box of stars Page 56 7. Invisibility Page 64 8. The Rembrandt interior Page 74 9. The rite of passage Page 82 10. Darkness Page 90 11. Leaving home Page 99 12. Outlaws Page 107 13. Alice, falling Page 120 14. The line Page 133 15. For whom the bell Page 144 16. Rain Page 153 17. Heat Page 158
Part II
18. Flying free Page 167 19. Extinction Page 178 20. Hiding Page 185 21. Fear Page 195 22. Apple Day Page 205 23. Memorial Page 214 24. Drugs Page 221 25. Magical places Page 232 26. The flight of time Page 242 27. The new world Page 249 28. Winter histories Page 258 29. Enter spring Page 269 30. The moving earth Page 276 Postscript Page 281 Notes Page 285 Acknowledgments Page 299

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QL696 F32 M33 2014, QL696.F32 M33 2014

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hardcover
Number of pages
300
Weight
490 grams

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OL25680448M
Internet Archive
hisforhawk0000macd
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9780802123411
OCLC/WorldCat
883651136
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