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Control # 1 smp00040224
Date 5 20210402163852.0
Fixed Data 8 210402s2014 enk b 000 0deng d
ISBN 20    $a9781481530965
Obsolete 39    $a353459$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDE#
ME:Pers Name 100 $aMacdonald, Helen,$d1970-$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aH is for hawk$h[Book on CD] /$cHelen Macdonald.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bGrove,$c2014.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a9 audio discs (approx. 11 hr.) ;$c4 3/4 in.
Note:General 500    $aCompact discs.
Note:Perfrmr 511    $aNarrated by the author.
Note:Content 505 $aPart I. 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 -- Part II. 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.
Abstract 520    $a"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 and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for ¤800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. ... Destined to be a classic of nature writing, H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey--an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T.H. White, best known for The Once and Future King. It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love."--Dust jacket.
Note:Awards 586    $aSamuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, 2014.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aMacdonald, Helen,$d1970-
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aWhite, T. H.$q(Terence Hanbury),$d1906-1964.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aFalconry.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aGoshawk.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aGrief.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSpirituality.
Genre/Form 655  7 $aAudiobooks.$2lcgft
Tag 949 949    $aSMCD$bCD$c598.944$dMAC$g33390004533994$p100$7Are there 9 discs?