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Grove Press
March 2014
On Sale: March 3, 2015
Featuring: Helen Macdonald
282 pages
ISBN: 1448130727
EAN: 9781448130726
Kindle: B00OV9D9AE
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction Pet-Lover
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London
street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer—Helen
had been captivated by hawks since childhood—she'd 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. Heart-wrenching and humorous, this book is an unflinching
account of bereavement and a unique look at the magnetism
of an extraordinary beast, with a parallel examination of
a legendary writer's eccentric falconry. Obsession,
madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a
distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an
outstanding literary innovator.
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