H is for Hawk drawing on work written over

drawing on work written over four decades

countless varieties of bird are celebrated here

Structured as a beautifully crafted bird almanac

the life of the backdoor scorpions in South Africa

H is for Hawk drawing on work written over"The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life." A modern classic of nature writing, H Is for Hawk is a deeply moving memoir that explores grief, memory and the extraordinary bond between a woman and the goshawk she sets out to train. Following the death of her father, Helen Macdonald turns to falconry, hoping that raising a wild goshawk might help her navigate loss. As she