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從馴鷹過程中走出悲痛，跟著作者Helen Macdonald走入發掘自我的心靈之旅
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紐約時報2015年最瘋狂賣座的暢銷書作家及轟動文學獎的得獎人Helen Macdonald，她的故事，從收養及馴服大自然中最兇猛獵捕者─蒼鷹開始，隨著馴養的困難到馴服成功，高飛的蒼鷹也帶領百萬讀者的心一同走向廣闊平靜的旅程。Mabel是作者所養的兇猛及狂野的蒼鷹，牠的一舉一動，似乎都反射作者的心情，從蒼鷹的眼神中看見自己的陰鬱，想起意外身亡的父親，也希望透過新的磨練及與訓練蒼鷹的過程中走出悲痛，感受人生的得到與失去。這是一本關於自我追尋、大自然奧妙及生與死的傑作。
Helen Macdonald是一位作家、詩人、插畫家、歷史學家及自然主義者。同時也是劍橋大學哲學與科學的研究學者，曾於牛津大學耶穌學院擔任研究員。著有關於獵鷹文化歷史的專門作品《Falcon》及三本詩集。作為一個專業的獵鷹馴養員，她也協助歐亞大陸的猛禽研究及保育計畫。
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As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.
H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.