H is for Hawk

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Call Number: 598.944 MacD, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Macdonald, Helen
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

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Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014.
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.
"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"--Dust jacket of a previous printing.

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Hawks, T.S. White, England, and Grief submitted by sdunav on June 12, 2015, 7:34pm Fantastic memoir, but with a very weird mix of subjects in it. There's a lot about England, photojournalism, grief for a great father, writing poetry, wilderness, and hawks. Especially goshawks. And T.S. White, who I knew as the author of The Sword in the Stone (which is way better than the Disney movie of the same title). T.S. White had a tortured life in many ways, and know I will never look at his stories in the same way.

Memoir in Flight submitted by spinkelman on July 16, 2016, 8:48pm This is indeed an odd mix of subjects for a memoir but the T.S. White chapters were such a great counterbalance to her journey. Three-fourths of the way through it did drag or get lost but ended well. I will reread this and relive my falconry dreams. Great adult answer to an 80s Ladyhawk geek.

awesome submitted by Zaneeba on June 15, 2019, 5:45pm nice book read this next on your reading list!

----- submitted by anita.lautenbach on June 29, 2019, 1:20pm really like this book!!!

great submitted by maxence07 on July 12, 2019, 7:39am great book!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow submitted by maywang on July 15, 2019, 8:58pm Guf

good submitted by secret name on August 1, 2019, 9:36am surprisingly good book, i do reccomend it

What a mix submitted by Richard Lee Pierre on August 15, 2019, 1:28pm As the other readers have said, this is quite a mix of elements: falconry, the author’s depression after the loss of her father, and musings of the difficult life of TH White. I sometimes found it hard to grasp what the author wanted readers to take away from this particular mix, but I enjoy the authors passionate discussions of her life and the moving descriptions of nature and her Goshawk throughout.

Lost submitted by Archit12 on August 19, 2021, 3:26pm 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.
"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"--Dust jacket of a previous printing.

really good book submitted by dhrustar on June 21, 2022, 4:48pm i really liked it, it had alot of good things in it

not bad submitted by Ilovetoeat on July 11, 2022, 10:04am too good

h submitted by smr on July 15, 2022, 11:25am h is

sounds nice submitted by Noor404021 on August 13, 2022, 8:57pm sounds nice based on other reviews