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H is for Hawk by Macdonald, Helen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize** **Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Biography Award** __‘In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they’re the birdwatchers’ dark grail.’__ 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 for £800 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. __‘To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk, and so gain the ability to predict what it will do next. Eventually you don’t see the hawk’s body language at all. You seem to feel what it feels. The hawk’s apprehension becomes you

Who reads H is for Hawk?

Author

Macdonald, Helen

Publisher

Vintage Digital

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780099575450

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science, Agriculture, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (32,325 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14