H Is for Hawk (Hardcover)

from markm2315

An account of personal loss, falconry with a Goshawk, and an insightful exploration of T.H.White and his book, The Goshawk. I found White's book confusing, until I read this one.

from a_forester

While initially I despaired of getting through what seemed to be a pretentious vocabulary, I'm glad I pushed on. Macdonald taught me the value of a writer taking their time and choosing words carefully. She was building a hard experience, one that takes patience and time and reading the book beca...

from atreic

So finally, after pushing the stack and reading the whole of The Once and Future King, and the whole of The Goshawk, I came back to H is for Hawk. I'm glad I did. The book feels richer, deeper, for being read in the context of my own views of what White wrote in the Goshawk. And sharper - there ...

from streamsong

When Helen Macdonald 's father passed away suddenly, she was overwhelmed by grief. To help herself work through this process, she fell back on her love of falconry and decided to obtain and train a young goshawk, a species of hawk that some say is a bit hardheaded and difficult to manage. She det...

from ozzer

Although the title of this memoir suggests that it is a book about a hawk, it is equally a book about the author and it may be apt to see H as also standing for Helen. Her motivation for training a goshawk after the untimely death of her beloved father seems clear. She will use this challenge as ...