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The Goshawk

Paperback • 2007 • English

The Goshawk

By Marie Winn

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About the book

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.'...Show more

Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction
Fishing, angling

Book details

ISBN

9781590172490

Publisher

NYRB Classics

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

The Goshawk

Format

Paperback

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