-
3 Formats: CD
-
3 Formats: Library CD
-
3 Formats: MP3 CD
-
ISBN: 9781481530965
-
ISBN: 9781481530941
-
ISBN: 9781481530958
Runtime: | 11.10 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/Biography |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the 2014 Costa Book Award for Biography
Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
A New York Times bestseller
A Slate Magazine Best Book of Nonfiction from the Last 25 Years
A Wired Magazine Pick of Best Nonfiction of the Decade
A Washington Post Best Audiobook of 2015
An iBooks bestseller
A 2015 Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year
A 2015 New York Times Top 10 Book
A 2016 Winner for the ALA Listen List for Outstanding Audiobook Narration
One of Audible’s Best Audiobooks of 2015 for Bios & Memoirs
A Literary Hub Pick of the 10 Best Memoirs of the Decade
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
An AudioFile Best Voice of 2015
A BookPage Top Pick of Audiobooks for June 2015
Shortlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal for Literature
Shortlisted for the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2016 Indies Choice Award for Adult Nonfiction
A 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography
A 2015 Boston Globe Book of the Year
A NPR’s Great Reads Selection of 2015
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of an “International Cast of Audiobooks” for Gift Giving
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015
A Flavorwire Pick for Best Nonfiction of 2015
A Men’s Journal Pick for Gifts for Your Mothers
A 2015 NPR Pick for Books to Give as Gifts This Year
A High Brow Magazine Best Book of 2015
A BuzzFeed Books Pick for Best Nonfiction of 2015
A Paste Magazine Pick for 30 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
A Federalist Notable Book of 2015
A Portland Mercury Pick for Required Reading of 2015
A 2015 Amazon Best Books of the Year Top 20 Selection
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
A Gizmodo Pick for Most Loved Science Books of 2015
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015
A Library Journal Best Book of 2015
A Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2015 for Nonfiction
A Today Show Pick for Summer Reading
One of Granta’s Best Books of the Year
A 2015 GoodReads Readers’ Choice Best Nonfiction Book Award nominee
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2015
A BookRiot Pick for Books about Nature and Wildness
An Electric Literature Pick of 11 Books about Outsiders
A BookRiot Pick of Soothing Audiobooks to Fall Asleep To
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T. H. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her journey into Mabel's world. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity.
By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement, a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast, and the story of an eccentric falconer and legendary writer. Weaving together obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history, H Is for Hawk is a distinctive, surprising blend of nature writing and memoir from a very gifted writer.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Biography |
Runtime: | 11.10 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
To listen to this title you will need our latest app
Due to publishing rights this title requires DRM and can only be listened to in the Blackstone Library app