The Goshawk
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00YK787OU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 552 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love. The predecessor to Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk, T. White's nature-writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: What is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham's Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos - at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. H. A particular sentence - "the bird reverted to a feral state" - seized his imagination, and, White later wrote, "A longing came to my mind that I should be able to do this myself. The word 'feral' has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, 'ferocious' and 'free.'" Immediately White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature's most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness - as it exists both within us and without.. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, as it happened, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest