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The Goshawk - T.H. White & Marie Winn

By T.H. White & Marie Winn

Release Date: 2007-10-02

Genre: Nature

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This account of one manā€™s tempestuous relationship with the hawk he trained is at once a comedy of errors, a classic of nature writing, and one of the best glimpses into the world of falconry.

The predecessor to Helen Macdonaldā€™s H is for Hawk, T. H. Whiteā€™s nature writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Mashamā€™s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentenceā€”ā€œthe bird reverted to a feral stateā€ā€”seized his imagination and he immediately wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient of depriving him of sleep. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gosā€”at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literatureā€™s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wildernessā€”as it exists both within us and without.

The Goshawk - T.H. White & Marie Winn

By T.H. White & Marie Winn

Release Date: 2007-10-02

Genre: Nature

4.5 (5 ratings)
Read Download
This account of one manā€™s tempestuous relationship with the hawk he trained is at once a comedy of errors, a classic of nature writing, and one of the best glimpses into the world of falconry.

The predecessor to Helen Macdonaldā€™s H is for Hawk, T. H. Whiteā€™s nature writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Mashamā€™s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentenceā€”ā€œthe bird reverted to a feral stateā€ā€”seized his imagination and he immediately wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient of depriving him of sleep. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.

White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gosā€”at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literatureā€™s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wildernessā€”as it exists both within us and without.

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