{"product_id":"9781590172490","title":"The Goshawk","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis account of one man’s tempestuous relationship with the hawk he trained is at once a comedy of errors, a classic of nature writing, and one of the best glimpses into the world of falconry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e, T. H. White’s nature writing classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Goshawk\u003c\/i\u003e, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future King\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMistress Masham’s Repose, \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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 he immediately wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient of depriving him of sleep. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Goshawk\u003c\/i\u003e, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.","brand":"T.H. White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47564170592468,"sku":"9781590172490","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4db5b5e1-56e1-4a48-961c-7188fe6f9e0a.jpg?v=1771373639","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781590172490","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}