Helen Macdonald Collection 2 Books Set - Non Fiction - Paperback

{"id":15951190786435,"title":"Helen Macdonald Collection 2 Books Set - Non Fiction - Paperback","handle":"helen-macdonald-collection-2-books-set-non-fiction-paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitles in this Set:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. H is for Hawk\u003cbr\u003e2. Vesper Flights\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH is for Hawk\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVesper Flights\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAnimals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVesper Flights is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us. 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H is for Hawk\u003cbr\u003e2. Vesper Flights\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH is for Hawk\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVesper Flights\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAnimals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVesper Flights is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us. Moving and frank, personal and political, it confirms Helen Macdonald as one of this century's greatest nature writers.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}