H is for Hawk

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As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk.
This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.

As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming.

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014, winner of the Costa Biography Award 2014 and Shortlisted for the 2015 Thwaites Wainwright Prize.
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Weight 0.258000
Author Helen Macdonald
Availability IP
Department Natural History
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780099575450
Pages 320
Published 26/02/2015
Publisher Vintage
Section Natural History
Size Unfolded 13x20cm
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