Falcon
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2016.
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| Edition: | 2016 edition. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2006 (Animal (Reaktion Books)). With new preface. "Associations and websites": pages 213-214. |
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| Physical Description: | 223 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1780236417 9781780236414 |
| Author Notes: | Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist and academic at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of H is for Hawk, which won the Samuel Johnson prize. This book is a depiction of the grief and depression she fell into after the sudden death of her father in 2007 and how she bounced back through falconry. H is for Hawk, which has just won the £20,000 prize, describes the year Macdonald spent training a goshawk. She writes about subsuming her grief in the relationship with the bird and trying to be like her: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. Her book is the first memoir to win the prize. She will be at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) |
