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"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Macdonald, Helen, > 1970-
White, T. H. > (Terence Hanbury), > 1906-1964.
Hawks.
Grief.
Spirituality.
Table of Contents:
  • Lost
  • Small worlds
  • Mr White
  • Holding tight
  • The box of stars
  • Invisibility
  • The Rembrandt interior
  • The rite of passage
  • Darkness
  • Leaving home
  • Outlaws
  • Alice, falling
  • The line
  • For whom the bell
  • Rain
  • Heat
  • Flying free
  • Extinction
  • Hiding
  • Fear
  • Apple day
  • Memorial
  • Drugs
  • Magical places
  • The flight of time
  • The new world
  • Winter histories
  • Enter spring
  • The moving earth.