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Falcon by Helen Macdonald
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Animal S.
A sacred god, a military tool, an erotic symbol: the falcon is a natural wonder of speed, power, beauty, and ferocity that has become embedded in human cultures in myriad ways. Helen Macdonald's Falcon examines the diverse symbolism and roles attached to the falcon throughout the centuries. Macdonald pr ...Show more
Falcon by Helen Macdonald
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Animal Ser.
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 ...Show more
H Is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
Category: REM Biography
* Winner the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize* #1 Bestseller in the UK* A "Guardian" and "Economist" Best Book of the Year When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer--Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood--she'd never before been tem ...Show more
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Category: Animals & Nature
'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 falcon ...Show more
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
Category: Biography
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, 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 ...Show more
H is for Hawk (The Birds and Bees) by Helen Macdonald
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
The Birds and the Beesseries was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world.As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of trainin ...Show more
Pasta for Nightingales - A Seventeenth-Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore by Cassiano dal Pozzo; Pietro Olina; C. J. P. Clayton (Translator); Helen Macdonald (Foreword by)
Category: Animals & Nature
The first-ever English translation of a seventeenth-century ornithology text, complete with historic watercolor illustrations This beautifully illustrated book brings together the newly commissioned, first-ever English translation of one of the earliest studies in ornithology with the original watercolo ...Show more
Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy by Helen Patricia MacDonald
Category: Health and Wellbeing
London, 1868: visiting Australian Aboriginal cricketer Charles Rose has died in Guy's Hospital. His body did not go directly to a grave. Possessing the Dead explores the disturbing history of the cadaver trade in Scotland, England and Australia, where laws once gave certain officials possession of the d ...Show more
Prophet by Helen Macdonald, Sin Blache
Category: General Fiction
Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has cre ...Show more
Prophet H/B by Helen Macdonald; Sin Blaché
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
'Fabulous . . . Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMAN YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON. This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do ...Show more
Recovery: Vintage Minis by Helen Macdonald
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
The hawk was everything I wanted to be- solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life How do we carry on when someone close to us dies? Is it simply a case of putting one foot in front of the other in a bleak new world or do we need something more? Reeling with grief aft ...Show more