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EPISODE · Mar 3, 2015 · 3 MIN

H Is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

from Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Aileen Williamson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H Is for Hawk Author: Helen MacDonald Narrator: Helen MacDonald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The instant New York Times bestseller and multiaward-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald’s story of adopting and raising one of nature’s most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. When Helen Macdonald’s father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she 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 anger 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 journey into Mabel’s world. Projecting herself “in the hawk’s wild mind to tame her” tested the limits of Macdonald’s humanity. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement, a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast, and the story of an eccentric falconer and legendary writer. Weaving together obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history, H Is for Hawk is a distinctive, surprising blend of nature writing and memoir from a very gifted writer.

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