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Title: THE GOSHAWK
By: T. H. White, Helen Macdonald (Foreword), Simon Vance
Format: Downloadable audio file

List price: £14.99


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ISBN 10: 1409165272
ISBN 13: 9781409165279
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date: 24 September, 2015
Description: This modern classic of nature writing by the author of THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING was an inspiration for and featured in Helen Macdonald's prize-winning H IS FOR HAWK.
Synopsis: 'No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist's art. One is matching one's mind against another mind with deadly reason and interest. One desires no transference of affection, demands no ignoble homage or gratitude. It is a tonic for the less forthright savagery of the human heart.' First published in 1951, T.H. White's memoir describes with searing honesty his attempt to train a wild goshawk, a notoriously difficult bird to master. With no previous experience and only a few hopelessly out-of-date books on falconry as a guide, he set about trying to bend the will of his young bird Gos to his own. Suffering setback after setback, the solitary and troubled White nonetheless found himself obsessively attached to the animal he hoped would one day set him free. Read by Simon Vance (p) 2015 Blackstone Audio
Publication: UK
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Returns: Non-returnable
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