![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. It’s a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.Īs John Vaillant’s The Tiger depicted the dangerous collision of people and nature, H is for Hawk evokes our deepest longings for something wild. White, best known for The Once and Future King. At the same time, it’s a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. ISBN-13: 9780802123411 Summary Winner, 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize Winner, 2014 Costa Book of the Year and Biography Award When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. ![]() 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. H Is for Hawk (MacDonald) H Is for Hawk Helen MacDonald, 2014 Grove/Atlantic 288 pp. 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. She buys Mabel for £800 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. Destined to be a classic of nature writing, the story of how one woman trained a goshawk.Īs a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. ![]()
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