H Is For Hawk (The Birds And The Bees)

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The Birds & 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 GBP800 on a Scottish quayside & 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 & her own untaming WINNER OF THE 2014 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE