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When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen 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 temperament mirrored her o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macdonald, Helen, 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Macdonald, Helen, > 1970-
White, T. H. > (Terence Hanbury), > 1906-1964 > Influence.
Hawks.
Grief > Biography.
Spirituality.
Human-animal relationships > Biography.
Bonding, Human-Pet.
Grief.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Patience
  • 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.