H Is For Hawk

Resumen del libro

This book is Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014. It was shortlisted for the the Costa Biography Award 2014. As 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 GBP800 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. H 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Helen Macdonaldx{0026}lt;/strong (Chertsey, Reino Unido, 1970) es escritora, naturalista e historiadora de la ciencia. Es investigadora del Departamento de Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia de la Universidad de Cambridge y colaboradora x{0026}lt;em del The New York Times Magazine,x{0026}lt;/em y ha escrito y narrado varios documentales televisivos para la BBC Four. Es autora de diversos libros, entre los que destaca su éxito internacional x{0026}lt;em H de halcón,x{0026}lt;/em por el que recibió el Premio Samuel Johnson.x{0026}lt;/p