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“Macdonald’s descriptions and experiences raising goshawks are intimate, full of details that animate the focal predator as much as Sapolsky’s baboons. In other words, raptors have character in H is for Hawk. They are also, in fact, characters in the book: Macdonald gives her particular goshawk the name Mabel. I think Macdonald’s take on Mabel and her kin is surprising to most people because we tend to extol mammalian predators, which are most like us, over the scaly and feathery ones, which are more unlike than like. H is for Hawk feels like the definitive statement on hawks for the modern times, and I think its success has a lot to do with how well Macdonald tied her inquiry into the life of a hawk with her own personal experience and journey.” Read more...
Nick Pyenson, Science Writer
It’s not an exaggeration to say that H is for Hawk, published in 2014, is already a classic of nature writing. In the audiobook, author Helen MacDonald narrates her touching memoir.
Narrator: Helen MacDonald
Length: 11 hours and 5 minutes
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