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Nov 06, 2016rogebc_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I found this book difficult to read because so much of it it outside my realm of experience, but that is also what made it so interesting to read. There are threads in the memoir - the grief and memories of the author's father; the challenges of training a goshawk; the painful story of TH White about his attempt to train a goshawk and the brutality of his life. The connections do not always make sense to me, but they are intriguing and thoughtful. I am left with a sense of what it is to have a relationship with the wilderness - how the wilderness has its own life and reality and my presence or absence is irrelevant. What a gift to connect with the wild, which is also my heritage - and the sorrow that so much of the "ecology" of the wild is being pieced out for the comfort of the human race.