H is for Hawk and Vesper Flights 2 Books Collection Set by Helen Macdonald

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H is for Hawk
Vesper Flights

Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9782992517346

H is for Hawk
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.

H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.

Vesper Flights
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.

From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.

About the Author:
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, and naturalist. Before becoming a full-time writer, they worked in raptor research and conservation for many years, then became a historian of science, specialising in the history of natural history, ornithology, and animal behaviour. They are an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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