"In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers' dark grail."
As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, inclu...
"In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers' dark grail."
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 to train a hawk as a spiritual contest.
When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.
"To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk, and so gain the ability to predict what it will do next. Eventually you don't see the hawk's body language at all. You seem to feel what it feels. The hawk's apprehension becomes your own. As the days passed and I put myself in the hawk's wild mind to tame her, my humanity was burning away."
Destined to be a classic of nature writing, H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey – an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White, best known for The Once and Future King. It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.
作者简介
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Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian and affiliate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Her books include Falcon (2006) and Shaler's Fish (2001).
鹰不会死，只会失联，遁入千枝万叶的黑暗树林中。而在鹰失联的那个世界里，或许也有作者Helen Macdonald失散了的父亲。就是这样的信念让她沉溺于此无法自拔，直到最后才幡然顿悟，写下Human hands are for holding other hands 这样的句子。前半是outsider之书，并行的那条线写T.H.White也值得一读。长评：https://book.douban.co...鹰不会死，只会失联，遁入千枝万叶的黑暗树林中。而在鹰失联的那个世界里，或许也有作者Helen Macdonald失散了的父亲。就是这样的信念让她沉溺于此无法自拔，直到最后才幡然顿悟，写下Human hands are for holding other hands 这样的句子。前半是outsider之书，并行的那条线写T.H.White也值得一读。长评：https://book.douban.com/review/7765921/(展开)
鹰不会死，只会失联，遁入千枝万叶的黑暗树林中。而在鹰失联的那个世界里，或许也有作者Helen Macdonald失散了的父亲。就是这样的信念让她沉溺于此无法自拔，直到最后才幡然顿悟，写下Human hands are for holding other hands 这样的句子。前半是outsider之书，并行的那条线写T.H.White也值得一读。长评：https://book.douban.co...鹰不会死，只会失联，遁入千枝万叶的黑暗树林中。而在鹰失联的那个世界里，或许也有作者Helen Macdonald失散了的父亲。就是这样的信念让她沉溺于此无法自拔，直到最后才幡然顿悟，写下Human hands are for holding other hands 这样的句子。前半是outsider之书，并行的那条线写T.H.White也值得一读。长评：https://book.douban.com/review/7765921/(展开)
A deeply personal account of the grief over the pass-away of her father, and the training and binding of her Goshawk Mable, accompanied by the Re-accounting of Mr. White and his Gos, who the author is mesmerized. English People's love for the wilderness ,...
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2 有用 别的熊 2016-02-09 21:58:36
鹰不会死，只会失联，遁入千枝万叶的黑暗树林中。而在鹰失联的那个世界里，或许也有作者Helen Macdonald失散了的父亲。就是这样的信念让她沉溺于此无法自拔，直到最后才幡然顿悟，写下Human hands are for holding other hands 这样的句子。前半是outsider之书，并行的那条线写T.H.White也值得一读。长评：https://book.douban.co... 鹰不会死，只会失联，遁入千枝万叶的黑暗树林中。而在鹰失联的那个世界里，或许也有作者Helen Macdonald失散了的父亲。就是这样的信念让她沉溺于此无法自拔，直到最后才幡然顿悟，写下Human hands are for holding other hands 这样的句子。前半是outsider之书，并行的那条线写T.H.White也值得一读。长评：https://book.douban.com/review/7765921/ (展开)
0 有用 Gioia 2015-05-23 09:07:18
鹰不是人，飞机不是人，但是爱它们的人，都是有血有肉有趣有爱的人。
2 有用 别的熊 2016-02-09 21:58:36
鹰不会死，只会失联，遁入千枝万叶的黑暗树林中。而在鹰失联的那个世界里，或许也有作者Helen Macdonald失散了的父亲。就是这样的信念让她沉溺于此无法自拔，直到最后才幡然顿悟，写下Human hands are for holding other hands 这样的句子。前半是outsider之书，并行的那条线写T.H.White也值得一读。长评：https://book.douban.co... 鹰不会死，只会失联，遁入千枝万叶的黑暗树林中。而在鹰失联的那个世界里，或许也有作者Helen Macdonald失散了的父亲。就是这样的信念让她沉溺于此无法自拔，直到最后才幡然顿悟，写下Human hands are for holding other hands 这样的句子。前半是outsider之书，并行的那条线写T.H.White也值得一读。长评：https://book.douban.com/review/7765921/ (展开)
0 有用 Gioia 2015-05-23 09:07:18
鹰不是人，飞机不是人，但是爱它们的人，都是有血有肉有趣有爱的人。