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Pros
Looking for goshawks is like looking for it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how. Macdonald also delves into his life and how his experiences and angst influenced his training and relationship with his goshawk.
It is a testament to the healing power of nature and the enduring bonds we form with animals. It explores why people seek refuge from loss by delving into the wild. Sometimes a reckoning comes of all of the lives we have lost.
H is for hawk is a book about falconry and an ode to hawks, in particular. Helen macdonald’s journey through grief and the joy falconer brought her. Macdonald's book will resonate with anyone who has experienced loss or struggled to find solace.
She “you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are. It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone. The cure for loneliness is solitude.
Cons
The only salvaging parts of the book are the main character's actual falconry time, training and bonding with her hawk. It tries, but fails miserably. There are so many passages about taking mabel out to fly and hunt that feel utterly repetitive.
H is for hawk left me feeling pretty cold. Author excuses * and child *. Author gets mired in odd personal/psychological stuff and strings out the book forever.
Highlights
Quality
The hawk in flight me running after her the land and the air a pattern of deep and curving detail sufficient to block out anyth... Read More
Not only was this beautifully written and extremely verbally descriptive but using it on my audible app to help me relax throug... Read More
Closest im ever going to get to a hawk
His advice in stressful dangerous situations is to be mindful of “exposure and depth of field and getting the shot you hope for
Price
That does not undermine the value of this book
Shipping
Book is in perfect condition and super fast shipping
Havent had a chance to read the book yet but it arrived promptly and in great condition
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- This product had a total of 7,059 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 24 2024.
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This is a foray into wild places and wild hearts
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Today i could not get through it fast enough
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The only thing they werent as fond of is the long descriptions of the man involved
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As some others have commented i could have done without most of the story of white and skimmed through many of those sections
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I enjoyed the authors style for her personal storyline i hope she writes more in that vein
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But thus many parts too tedious to actually read
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Lose the white parallel totally
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