The goshawk [sound recording] / by T. H. White.

Unabridged.

9781504641043
1504641043

[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015]

℗2015

English

5 audio discs (5 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.

050000

9781504641043

SK321 .W55 2015ab

799.2/32

Zbmaz Blackstone Audio
ZPbmaz Blackstone Audio

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was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, as it happened, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest.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.

Title from container.
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"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container.
Read by Simon Vance.

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