H is for hawk

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR****WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**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.

Participantes

Autor: Helen Macdonald

Autor

HELEN MACDONALD

Helen Macdonald (Chertsey, Inglaterra, 1970) é escritora, historiadora e naturalista associada à Universidade de Cambridge. Seu livro, F de falcão (2016), é uma mistura de memória e contemplação da natureza, em que se vale da experiência da falcoaria, arte de treinar aves de rapina, para superar a morte repentina do pai e compreender o mundo através de outros olhares.