H Is For Hawk The Birds & Bees - Softcover

Helen Macdonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784871109 ISBN 13: 9781784871109

Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE, 2016

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Review:

An Amazon Best Book of the Month for March 2015: When naturalist and falconer Helen Macdonald lost her beloved father, she “thought [her] world was ending.” Seems apropos, then, that her journey from crippling grief to something resembling grace is on the wings of another deadly bird of prey--the notoriously prickly, and murderous, goshawk. In H Is for Hawk, you will meet Mabel, not your typical bloodthirsty specimen, as she is trained to hunt like the goshawks of yore. It is this brash, slightly mad undertaking that wrenches Macdonald free from despair, and brings her to a place where she can begin again. Doesn’t sound like your kind of thing? You’d be surprised. Macdonald’s gorgeously wrought prose holds you in thrall from the first page, and provides something akin to the escape, and salvation, that nature provides her. In ‘Hawk’ you will also learn about the famed Arthurian novelist T.H. White, a kindred soul to Macdonald in certain ways. One of the things that endeared him to her was his “childish delight” with all things wild, something you’ll be hard-pressed not to experience as soon as you tap into this tome. –Erin Kodicek

About the Author:

HELEN MACDONALD is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian and affiliate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She also worked as a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. She is the author of a cultural history of falcons, titled Falcon, and three collections of poetry. She writes for numerous publications and has a column in the New York Times magazine. She has worked as a professional falconer and assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Europe and Asia.

@HelenJMacdonald The author lives in Cambridge, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784871109
• ISBN 13: 9781784871109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336