H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald (author)

As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.

H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, and naturalist. Before becoming a full-time writer, they worked in raptor research and conservation for many years, then became a historian of science, specialising in the history of natural history, ornithology, and animal behaviour. They are an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. They are best known for the internationally bestselling and prize-winning memoir 'H Is for Hawk', the essay collection 'Vesper Flights', and have also written a cultural history of falcons 'Falcon', and three collections of poetry. Their most recent book is the novel 'Prophet' written in collaboration with Sin Blaché. Helen lives in Suffolk, England, with two parrots known as 'The Bugs."

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; 1st ed (26 Feb. 2015)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784701444
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm