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When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had 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...
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Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
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Handheld classic volume 31
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T H White, author of The Sword in The Stone, The Once and Future King, The Goshawk, and England Have my Bones, died in Greece from a heart attack in 1964, aged 57. On hearing this news, the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, then aged 71, mourned 'a friend I never managed to have'. A few months later she agreed to write his biography, and travelled to his home in Alderney to survey what materials she could use.