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Title	:	H is for Hawk
Author	:	Helen Macdonald
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 300 pages
Published	:	July 31st 2014 by Jonathan Cape
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Environment. Nature. Biography. Animals

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

Hardcover | Pages: 300 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 54420 Users | 7838 Reviews

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Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an outstanding literary innovator.

When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer—Helen had been 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 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.

Heart-wrenching and humorous, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement and a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast, with a parallel examination of a legendary writer's eccentric falconry. Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an outstanding literary innovator.

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ISBN:	0224097008 (ISBN13: 9780224097000)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	T.H. White
Literary Awards:	Costa Book Award for Biography (2014), Orion Book Award Nominee (2016), Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (2016), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2015), Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2014) Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (Shortlist) (2016), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (Finalist) (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015), Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2014), Costa Book of the Year (2014), The Wainwright Golden Beer Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2015)

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A is for AscendantProse to sweep you awayB is for BirdsWith a passion for preyC is for CambridgeShes one of their scholarsD is for DineroNice royalty dollarsE is for ElegiacSo sad when her dad diedF is for FlyingBird and soul, side by sideG is for GratefulSusan, you pointed the wayH is for HawkA great book, I must sayOK, you get the idea. This one is beautifully written, scholarly, a bit sad, and ultimately uplifting. Its been quite a success, too, both at the bookstores and with critics. Oh,

Thanks, Josephine.

This is gorgeous nature writing and it is also a graceful memoir about bereavement. Helen Macdonald has managed to blend the two genres beautifully. When Helen's father died, her grief was so great that she decided to adopt a goshawk. Helen had loved hawks since childhood and had studied falconry, but this was her first time trying to train a goshawk. In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecoats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and

I also like owls.

I generally don't do memoirs, but not because I'm a snob for everything else. I don't do them because I'm not really interested. A bit more oddly, I'm only mildly interested in hawks and falcons. I certainly never went out of my way to learn more after reading Stephen King's The Gunslinger, so why am I going out of my way now?Mostly, it's because of the writing. I heard from several sources that it was good and I stayed as a low blip in my radar for quite some time, but then, finally Ilana

I certainly would not want to dissuade anyone from reading H is for Hawk, Cambridge professor Helen Macdonald's moving memoir of coping with the loss of her photojournalist father. Her twin academic disciplines of English and ornithology (specifically, falconry) provide the source of her occasionally gorgeous prose as she recounts her attempt at raising a goshawk. If she'd focused more on herself, her birding, and her subsequent descent into near-madness, this would've been a solid four-star

I havent recently experience a great loss in my life, Ive never read T.H. Whites The Goshawk, and I knew nothing about hawking, but something about H is for Hawk always appealed to me. When it was first published a few years back it was the book that I met with frequently in the bookshop and had a flirtatious, but never financially binding, relationship. By years end the book made an appearance on many best-of lists, but it still remained a book I always intended to read. Many a reader can read