9781590172490
The Goshawk
Terence Hanbury White
ISBN 13: 9781590172490
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Softcover
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"...the tension that he's held throughout the 200 pages is, one may almost say, the moral aura of this difficultly achieved rapport between civilized man and slaying bird....One rubs one's eyes at last and says, 'All this for a bird,' and tries to shake things back into their proper proportions; but they refuse to be shaken back; things are not quite as they were: somewhere beyond the welfare state a hawk stoops to his kill and a man has by infinite pains entered the realm of the bird and shared the vision of that blazing eye."
Times Literary Supplement, 07/20/1951
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Book Description: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, 2007. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 203 x 129 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T. H. 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 I should be able to do this myself. The word 'feral' has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, 'ferocious' and 'free.'" Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love. White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos--at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became "The Goshawk," one of modern literature's most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness--as it exists both within us and without. Bookseller Inventory # AA69781590172490 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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