The Goshawk (New York Review Books Classics)

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A volergli attribuire un qualche significato aggiuntivo, lo si potrebbe affiancare a Thoreau, oppure anche a tanti altri libri pubblicati in questi ultimi anni in cui si raccontano le esperienze di chi si vuole distaccare, in tutto in parte, dalla civiltà moderna e caotica, per riscoprire un diverso spirito nel contatto con la natura e con i ritmi quotidiani. Red cloth hard cover with silver titles on spine, and no cover wear apart from very small patch of loss of colour on lower front board. Rob Bijlsma, Netherlands * The challenges that birds of prey face are laid bare, but this is an upbeat book, one to lift the heart and give hope for the future.

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. light spotting to the page edges and a little tanning of pages, spine ends a little bumped and some rubbing of boards , light wear to the DJ edges, faded a little to spine, small nick to top edge of DJ. This fascinating book is a day-to-day record of White's attempts to establish himself "Gos"'s eyes as an equal, a long, painful and emotionally wearing experience that sometimes involved the author's staying up night after night, talking to the bird, crooning to him, even reciting Shakespeare.This is a repugnant point of view, really, privileged and imperialist; he is the figure to whom all cultural arguments are aimed today. Not from courage, but from necessity, I had stood quiet and unprotesting, speaking to him calmly until he let go. White wrote this account of his attempt to train a goshawk using traditional falconry techniques in 1936. The word ‘feral’ has a magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free. Un diario di sei settimane di addestramento, in cui lo scrittore-addestratore lotta, sbaglia, fallisce, si tormenta, e alla fine rimane chiuso fuori dal mondo del rapace.

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.Her discussion of this book provided a LOT of useful context that I would have NEVER gotten from reading it blind - his homosexuality, his alcoholism, the rise of WWII. 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. Last spring I reread The Once and Future King, and ever since then I've been wishing there was more of it. The book is his non-fiction log of the training of the bird named Gos, using two dated manuals, one written in 1619, as his only guides.