H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Sri Lankan Literature

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Sri Lankan LiteratureWinner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction 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 800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to

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