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The Goshawk (New York Review Books Classics) Book

The Goshawk What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T. H. White, the 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 bre...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    The Goshawk chronicles a concentrated duel between the author and a great hawk. It is the journal of an intense clash of wills - during the bird's training - in which the pride and endurance of the wild raptor are worn down by the insistent...

  • BookDepository

    The Goshawk : Paperback : The New York Review of Books, Inc : 9781590172490 : 1590172493 : 02 Oct 2007 : Originally published: London: Cape, 1951.

  • 1590172493
  • 9781590172490
  • T.H. White
  • 5 November 2007
  • New York Review Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
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