@article{734536,
      recid = {734536},
      author = {White, T. H. and Vance, Simon,},
      title = {The goshawk [sound recording] /},
      pages = {5 audio discs (5 hr.) :},
      note = {Title from container.},
      abstract = {The predecessor to Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk, T. H.  White's nature-writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the  age-old question: What is it that binds human beings to  other animals? White, author of The Once and Future King  and Mistress Masham's Repose, was a young writer who found  himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A  particular sentence -- the bird reverted to a feral state  -- seized his imagination, and, White later wrote, "A  longing came to my mind that I should be able to do this  myself. The word 'feral' has a kind of magical potency  which allied itself to two other words, 'ferocious' and  'free.'" Immediately White wrote to Germany to acquire a  young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious  and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in  beyond the ancient (and, as it happened, long superseded)  practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he,  White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered  a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and  repulsion that looks very much like love.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/734536},
}