H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald trained a goshawk while grieving her father's death. The result is a memoir that's also a natural history, a literary biography of T.H. White, and an investigation into the wildness we seek when domesticated life fails us.
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Vesper Flights
Macdonald's essay collection after H Is for Hawk — swifts, wild boar, mushrooms, and the act of paying attention to nonhuman lives. Each essay is a small masterpiece of noticing.
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