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Author
Language
English
Description
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge....
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate...
3) Falcon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Macdonald dives through centuries and careens around the globe to tell the story of the falcon as it has flown in the wild skies of the natural world and those of our imagination. Mixing history, myth, and legend, she explores the long history of the sport of falconry in many human cultures?from Japan to Abu Dhabi to Oxford; she analyzes the falcon?s talismanic power as a symbol in art, politics, and business; and she addresses the ways we have both...
Author
Publisher
Spanish Pubs Llc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Qu? lecciones puede ense?arnos la fauna y flora que nos rodea? ¿Qu? tienen que ver las migraciones de las aves con las migraciones humanas? ¿Qu? relaci?n hay entre unos extra?os gusanos luminosos y las pantallas de los m?viles? ¿Existe alg?n v?nculo entre las migra?as y el cambio clim?tico? ¿Qu? conecta a los cisnes con la monarqu?a brit?nica? ¿En qu? se parecen los nidos de los p?jaros a las incubadoras de las maternidades? Helen Macdonald...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
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