H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald ISBN 13: 9780670069552

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Hamish Hamilton, 2015. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hamish Hamilton, 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. 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… Read More

Hamish Hamilton. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2015. Hardcover. 0670069558 . Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket with faint wear to front panel. A superb piece of writing. Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2014. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 320 pages .

Hamish Hamilton, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Full run of numbers. Dust jacket has slight edge wear otherwise very good.

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Hamish Hamilton, 2014. Hard Cover. Good.

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Hamish Hamilton, March 2015. Hardcover. VG.

Hamish Hamilton, March 2015. Hardcover. Good/Good.

H Is for Hawk, Macdonald, Helen. Hamish Hamilton, Toronto, 2015. First Canadian Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 320 pages. Black boards, decorative yellow spine titles. Unclipped dustjacket has the lightest of shelf wear; volume in fine condition without marks, tears or folds. Destined to be a classic of nature writing, the story of how one woman trained a goshawk.

Hamish Hamilton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2015. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670069558 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Slant to spine. Rubbing on edges of d/j. ; 8.98 X 5.98 X 1.26 inches; 320 pages .

Toronto: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2014 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition. "... the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these Raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own." Winner of the Costa Award and thee Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction in 2014. 200p. bibliography.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hamish Hamilton, 2015. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. pp. 300. Small 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Publisher's black boards, mustard-yellow lettering to the spine. No detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; fine and housed in fine, unclipped, dustjacket. Appears unread; as new. "Destined to be a classic of nature writing, the story of how one woman trained a goshawk. 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. WhiteÂ’s tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes WhiteÂ’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… Read More