Edition |
Unabridged. |
Description |
1 audio disc (approximately 11 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. |
Playing Time |
110000 |
Description |
digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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1.4 m/s |
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stereo rdacpc |
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audio file rdaft |
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MP3 |
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Memoir |
System Details |
System requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3-capable software. |
Note |
MP3 format compact disc. Will only play on CD players adapted for MP3 format. |
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"Tracks every 10 minutes and by chapter"--Container |
Performer |
Read by the author. |
Summary |
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 Sword and the Stone 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. |
Contents |
Lost -- Small worlds -- Mr White -- Holding tight -- The box of stars -- Invisibility -- The Rembrandt interior -- The rite of passage -- Darkness -- Leaving home -- Outlaws -- Alice, falling -- The line -- For whom the bell -- Rain -- Heat -- Flying free -- Extinction -- Hiding -- Fear -- Apple day -- Memorial -- Drugs -- Magical places -- The flight of time -- The new world -- Winter histories -- Enter spring -- The moving earth. |
Subject |
Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
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White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964.
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Hawks.
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Grief.
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Spirituality.
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Grief (DNLM)D006117
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Spirituality (DNLM)D029181
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970- (OCoLC)fst01927062
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White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964. (OCoLC)fst00040293
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Grief. (OCoLC)fst00947883
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Hawks. (OCoLC)fst00952093
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Spirituality. (OCoLC)fst01130186
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Genre/Form |
Audiobooks on CD.
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Autobiography (DNLM)D020493
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Audiobooks.
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Autobiographies.
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Added Author |
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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ISBN |
9781481530958 |
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148153095X |
Music No. |
ZMbhsj Blackstone Audio |
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