The predecessor to Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk , T.
White's nature writing classic, The Goshawk , asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? 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 .
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New York Review Of Books The goshawk, paperback/t. h. white
