The Resource H is for hawk, Helen Macdonald
H is for hawk, Helen Macdonald
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The item H is for hawk, Helen Macdonald represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Des Plaines Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item H is for hawk, Helen Macdonald represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Des Plaines Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 9 audio discs (11 hr.)
- Note
-
- Compact discs
- Unabridged
- Isbn
- 9781481530965
- Label
- H is for hawk
- Title
- H is for hawk
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Macdonald
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals
- Cataloging source
- BLACP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Macdonald, Helen
- Dewey number
- 598.9/44
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- QL696.F3
- LC item number
- M34 2015ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- memoirs
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by the author
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Macdonald, Helen
- White, T. H.
- Hawks
- Grief
- Spirituality
- Falconers
- Human-animal relationships
- Target audience
- adult
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- H is for hawk, Helen Macdonald
- Note
-
- Compact discs
- Unabridged
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Extent
- 9 audio discs (11 hr.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781481530965
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other physical details
- digital, CD audio
- Publisher number
- Zbhsj
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn897119453
- (Sirsi) o897119453
- (OCoLC)897119453
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- H is for hawk, Helen Macdonald
- Note
-
- Compact discs
- Unabridged
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Extent
- 9 audio discs (11 hr.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781481530965
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other physical details
- digital, CD audio
- Publisher number
- Zbhsj
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn897119453
- (Sirsi) o897119453
- (OCoLC)897119453
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Falconers -- Biography
- Grief
- Hawks
- Human-animal relationships -- Biography
- Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
- Spirituality
- White, T. H., (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964
- Audiobooks
- Autobiographies
Genre
Included in
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Animals
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Parenthood and Family
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