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Books
by
Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Call Number
598.944 M13h
Publication Date
2014
Physical Description
300 pages ; 22 cm
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"--Dust jacket of a previous printing.
Format:
Audio disc
Edition
Unabridged.
by
Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Call Number
598.944 MACDONA HELEN
Publication Date
2015
Physical Description
9 audio discs (approximately 11 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer 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 anger 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 Sword and the Stone author T. H. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her journey into Mabel's world. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity.
Format:
Large print
by
Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Call Number
598.44 MACDONA HELEN
Publication Date
2015 2014
Physical Description
487 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Summary
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had 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 Goshawk 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.
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Thorndike Press large print peer picks.
Format:
Video disc
Edition
Widescreen.
by
Birkhead, Mike,
Call Number
598.944 H
Publication Date
2017
Physical Description
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
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H is for hawk: a new chapter (Motion picture : 2017). Nature (Television program) H is for hawk.
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