Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction 2015. Patience - Lost - Small worlds - Mr White - Holding tight - The box of stars - Invisibility - The Rembrandt interior - The rite of passage - Darkness - Leaving home - Outlaws - Alice, falling - The line - For whom the bell - Rain - Heat - Flying free - Extinction - Hiding - Fear - Apple day - Memorial - Drugs - Magical places - The flight of time - The new world - Winter histories - Enter spring - The moving earth See search resultsfor this author Helen Macdonald(Author) 4. Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014 H is for Hawk Hardcover Januby Helen Macdonald (Author) Visit Amazon's Helen Macdonald Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. 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.". on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. "As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. 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
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