The Goshawk
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Publisher Description
The Goshawk is a non-fiction memoir by T. H. White, the author of The Once and Future King, chronicalling multiple attempts, with various degrees of success, to acquire and train a Goshawk, a large bird of prey. White is a novice at the start of the book, and he brings the reader along with him as he slowly learns how to tame the fierce, fearless predators.
Training goshawks was also the subject of English author Helen Macdonald’s award-winning 2014 novel H is for Hawk.
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Reprinted, White's 1951 book on falconry details the battle of wills between the author and the hawk he is trying to train.
