The Goshawk
Book description
With a foreword by Helen Macdonald, author of the multi-award-winning H IS FOR HAWK.
'No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist's art. One is matching one's mind against another mind with deadly reason and interest. One desires no transference of…
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Tired of humanity and keen to ‘rewild’ himself, T. H. White gave up his teaching job and bought a goshawk from Germany (they had been wiped out in Britain).
He set out to ‘revert to a wild state’ and rented a cottage in the woods. His account of trying to ‘tame’ this hawk is vivid and intense, and not without controversy, as he used a medieval method that seemed cruel to some back then, and to most people now. This book is the only one written about goshawks here in the 20th century.
A complex and brilliant mind, White is…
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