Macdonald, Helen

H is for Hawk

ISBN: 9780802124739
New York, NY: Grove Press, 2014. First American Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by Helen Macdonald. “The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”-- Steven Erikson, “Toll The Hounds”. Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist, and affiliated research scholar at University of Cambridge. Macdonald has written and narrated several radio programmes, and appeared on television in the BBC Four documentary series, “Birds Britannia”, in 2010. Her books include “Shaler's Fish” (2001), “Falcon” (2006), “H is for Hawk” (2014), and “Vesper Flights” (2020). Macdonald received critical acclaim for “H is for Hawk”, including the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction and the Costa Book Award. The book—which also became a “Sunday Times” best-seller—describes the year Macdonald spent after the death of her father training a Northern goshawk named Mabel, and includes biographical material about the naturalist and writer T. H. White. Macdonald also helped make the film "10 X Murmuration" with filmmaker Sarah Wood as part of a 2015 exhibition at the Brighton Festival. In “H is for Hawk: A New Chapter”, part of BBC's “Natural World” series in 2017, she trained a new goshawk chick.Macdonald presented the BBC Four documentary, “The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway”, in 2020. That same year saw the publication of their fourth book, “Vesper Flights”, a collection of essays about "the human relationship to the natural world". “H is for Hawk” is the critically acclaimed 2014 memoir about how the unexpected passing of her father led to a year of training a northern goshawk, a practice that would be profoundly life-changing as it was healing. Straightforward, raw, concise and oftentimes bursting with pathos, “H is for Hawk” is a compelling narrative that illuminates the pain of grief, while offering profound insights into healing and how to cope with loss. Signed on the title page in thin black ink an inscription reads: “For Alice with very best wishes. Helen Macdonald.” Softcover, First U.S. Edition Thus, First Printing as indicated by number sequence on copyright page. Book is in Very Fine condition with slight wear to fine edges and minor bending and smudging to front and back covers. Very Fine. [Item #5736]

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