![]() ![]() White, whose 1951 book The Goshawk details his own painful battle to master his title subject. ![]() As a devotee of birds of prey since girlhood, Macdonald knew the legends and the literature, particularly the cautionary example of The Once and Future King author T.H. ![]() “The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life,” she writes. Although a trained falconer, the author chose a raptor both unfamiliar and unpredictable, a creature of mad confidence that became a means of working against madness. Falcon, 2006, etc.) tried staving off deep depression with a unique form of personal therapy: the purchase and training of an English goshawk, which she named Mabel. An inspired, beautiful and absorbing account of a woman battling grief-with a goshawk.įollowing the sudden death of her father, Macdonald (History and Philosophy/Cambridge Univ. ![]()
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