{"product_id":"h-is-for-hawk-9780670069552","title":"H is for Hawk","description":"\u003cp\u003eDestined to be a classic of nature writing  the story of how one woman trained a goshawk. As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books  including T. H. Whites tortured masterpiece  The Goshawk  which describes Whites struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief  she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for 800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone  ready to embark on the long  strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journeyan unflinchingly honest account of Macdonalds struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawks taming and her own untaming. At the same time  its a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White  best known for The Once and Future King. Its a book about memory  nature and nation  and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love. As John Vaillants The Tiger depicted the dangerous collision of people and nature  H is for Hawk evokes our deepest longings for something wild. With stunning language that that resonates long after the books conclusion  H is for Hawk is destined to be a classic of nature writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924785823797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0670069558","price":64.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780670069552.jpg?v=1794141091","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/h-is-for-hawk-9780670069552","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}