The Goshawk (New York Review Books Classics)

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Che è un bellissimo rapace, più o meno un chilogrammo di peso (la femmina è molto più grande del maschio. penso che se non si ha un'anima da scout (per chi ha la mia età direi un'anima da giovani marmotte) queste parti possano risultare abbastanza pesanti. far from the bitter, sexual confusion of the metropolis or the small wars of the schoolroom" (Macdonald). The word ‘feral’ has a magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.

His friends have urged him to take up arms to fight the fascists, but he "would rather shoot rabbits than people".

Whether or not Cockerell ever knew the “Cambridge Correspondent’s” identity until White spilled the beans in 1944, the two later met face to face in Siegfried Sassoon’s home.

La caratteristica di questo animale, uno spietato assassino dagli occhi di ghiaccio che " sarebbe andato perfettamente d’accordo con Attila", è di non essere facilmente addestrabile. If you like the Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis, the New Forest, film-making, and have a lot of patience, you will enjoy this book, as I did. This new edition has a foreword by Helen Macdonald, author of the second best book ever written about falconry. Si mette in giuoco la propria mente con un’altra mente con il massimo dell’impegno e della tensione intellettuale. A little psychodrama between person and bird, fascism and war in the background (he thinks the human world is going to end -- a casual, sombre certainty).H. White, and the reason why I love his writing shines through in punctuated brilliance in this brief book. E' un racconto tutto fatto di eventi minimi per non dire insignificanti, eppure riesce ad essere coinvolgente.

In larger doses this would perhaps grow wearisome – but we are soon back to crisp delineations of feather and flight, and patient logbook chronicles of comings and goings at the nest. and train him per the methods of three textbooks: a volume of The Sportsman's Library, one of The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, and the truly incredible Bert's Treatise of Hawks and Hawking, published 1619. it's all very interesting language that shows a craving for proximity to power, death, and violence, and an escape from one's self (again, Macdonald does a good analysis of this). Sitting on the night perch of his mews he looked up at the ceiling, wriggled his head and neck like an eel or snake dancer from Ind, attempted to thrust down those three enormous bones into his interior with a kind of shimmy, regarded me, hiccuping, with glassy eye. The visit included the first of many small bestowings — photographs, postcards, cuttings from catalogues — which Cockerell was to give him” (Warner).It’s the summer of 2020, and as England lurches in and out of lockdown James Aldred is in the deeps of his beloved New Forest, filming a goshawk nest. The idea of violence hurts him deeply; he wants justice and peace, but admits more to cowardice: "I did not disapprove of war, but feared it much. H. White, the guy who wrote "The Once and Future King", bought a goshawk and tried to train it to hunt himself, using books from the 17th century. He had held the glove with one talon, the bare forefinger with the other, so tightly that only one method of escape had been open to me, and that had been to tear him in half. A firm, square copy, a little rubbed to extremities with very small white blemishes to spine and edges, but very good in the jacket with the slightest of toning to spine, ends a little creased, but bright.