Helen Macdonald
Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
2) Prophet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times–bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn romance-set in a universe just one perilous step from our own.
Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence...
3) H de halcón
Author
Language
Español
Description
A raíz de la inesperada muerte de su padre, Helen Macdonald decide comprar y adiestrar un azor, el ave de presa más peligrosa y letal. Así empieza un viaje de exploración a lo más profundo del dolor y de lo salvaje, que llevará a la autora al límite de la locura y cambiará su vida.
Destinado a convertirse en un clásico, H de halcón es un libro sobre el recuerdo, la naturaleza y el ser humano. Una lección magistral acerca de cómo reconciliar...
4) Falcon
Author
Language
English
Description
Before best-selling author Helen Macdonald told the story of the goshawk in H Is for Hawk, she told the story of the falcon, in a cultural history of the masterful creature that can “cut the sky in two” with the “perfectly aerodynamic profile of a raindrop,” as she so incisively puts it.
In talon-sharp prose she explores the spell the falcon has had over her and, by extension, all of us, whether we've seen them “through binoculars, framed...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate...