H is for Hawk
by Macdonald, Helen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0802123414
- ISBN 13
- 9780802123411
- Seller
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Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
From the front d.j. flap: "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 Godshawk' 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."
Synopsis
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery. "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 ... 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stillman Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 717SB
- Title
- H is for Hawk
- Author
- Macdonald, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Little bump to bottom of spine; o/w NF. Dark Brown paper on boards; Dk. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0802123414
- ISBN 13
- 9780802123411
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 300
- Size
- Sm. 8 vo.
- Keywords
- 1st U.S. Edition.
Terms of Sale
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About Stillman Books
children's and other illustrated books, along with aviation, sea and naval and other categories. I'm still plugging along after 42 years of book-selling.