{"product_id":"book-bmaz","title":"The Goshawk","description":"\u003cp\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, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future King\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMistress Masham’s Repose\u003c\/i\u003e, 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was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, as it happened, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest.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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49300904050992,"sku":"BDbmaz","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49300904083760,"sku":"ZEbmaz","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD [ZM]","offer_id":49300904116528,"sku":"ZMbmaz","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/152027-bmaz-Square.jpg?v=1733185158","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bmaz","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}