H is for Hawk (The Birds and Bees)

Helen Macdonald

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Publisher:: Random House UK Ltd, 05/2016
Binding:: Flexibler Einband, ,
ISBN-13:: 9781784871109
Weight:: 268 g
Format:: 175 x 130 mm
Thickness:: 27 mm
Release date:: 5.5.2016

Blurb

The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, 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. Her story is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. WINNER OF THE 2014 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

Biography

Helen Macdonald ist Autorin, Lyrikerin, Illustratorin und Historikerin. Sie arbeitet an der University of Cambridge, England, im Bereich Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften. H wie Habicht erhielt in England den renommierten Samuel Johnson Prize, der herausragenden Sachbüchern verliehen wird, sowie den hochdotierten Costa Award für das beste Buch des Jahres 2014.