H Is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk. Destined to be a classic of nature writing, the story of how one woman trained a goshawk. 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 for 800 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. "H is for Hawk" is a record of a spiritual journey--an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White, best known for "The Once and Future King." It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love. As John Vaillant's "The Tiger" depicted the dangerous collision of people and nature, "H is for Hawk" evokes our deepest longings for something wild. With stunning language that that resonates long after the book's conclusion, "H is for Hawk" is destined to be a classic of nature writing.

Kategori: Science

ISBN: 9780670069552

Forfatter: Helen Macdonald

Språk: Engelsk

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Utgitt år: 2015

Sideantall: 320

Utgave: ukjent

Vekt: 640 g

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