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H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald

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Summary
  • 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."--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
300 pages
Note
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014
Contents
  • 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
Isbn
9780802123411
Instance
Label
H is for Hawk
Title
H is for Hawk
Statement of responsibility
Helen Macdonald
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • 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."--
Tone
Writing style
Award
  • Booklist Editors' Choice, 2015
  • Costa Biography Award, 2014.
  • Costa Book of the Year Award, 2014
  • Library Journal Best Books, 2015.
  • New York Times Notable Book, 2015
  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, 2014.
Assigning source
Dust jacket of a previous printing
Awards note
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction 2015. Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2014 biography award.
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10392024
Cataloging source
YDXCP
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1970-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Macdonald, Helen
Dewey number
598.9/44
Index
no index present
LC call number
QL696.F32
LC item number
M33 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Macdonald, Helen
  • White, T. H.
  • Macdonald, Helen
  • White, T. H.
  • Macdonald, Helen
  • White, T. H.
  • Hawks
  • Grief
  • Spirituality
  • Hawks
  • Grief
  • Hawks
  • Spirituality
  • Falconry
  • Goshawks
  • Grief
  • Spiritual life
Label
H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
300 pages
Isbn
9780802123411
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)883651136
Label
H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
Publication
Note
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
300 pages
Isbn
9780802123411
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)883651136

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