Helen M Macdonald

Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy

With a rare blend of curiosity, delight in the unexpected, and an eye for detail, this account explores the disturbing history of the cadaver trade in Australia, England, and Scotland. Drawing on a rich array of materialand using Australian Aboriginal cricketer Charles Rose’s 1868 death in London as...

The Goshawk (New York Review Books Classics)

The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifl...

A Review of Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk

This is a Review of H is for HawkH is for Hawkis a memoir by Helen Macdonald. Macdonald had a life-long fascination with birds of prey, especially falcons, and the goshawk, a large wild bird of prey, is well known to bird enthusiasts as being the hardest to train. The book tells of her efforts to tr...

Falcon (Reaktion Books - Animal)

A sacred god, a military tool, an erotic symbol: the falcon is a natural wonder of speed, power, beauty, and ferocity that has become embedded in human cultures in myriad ways. Helen Macdonald's Falcon examines the diverse symbolism and roles attached to the falcon throughout the centuries.Macdonald...

Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories

Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularly-and legally-carried out on the bodies of murderers, and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the infamous murders committed by Burke and Hare to supply dissection subjects...

Tainted (The Tainted Series Book 1)

The figurehead of a war she didn't know she was part of. The human with the heart. The little girl with the killer's blade. The lost twin with nothing else to lose. The scientist who lies. We are the Tainted. We are all Tainted. And we want you to come with us.Believe in Guardian Angels. A contempor...

Shaler's Fish

Before Helen Macdonald chronicled the experience of adopting a goshawk in her bestselling book H Is for Hawk, she was a poet. With a masterful ear for musical phrasing as well as an utterly unique way of seeing the earth around her, she writes deft, daring verse; her language is melodic and opulent ...

H Is for Hawk

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize* Named the Costa Book of the Year* #1 bestseller in the UKWhen Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer—Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood—she'd never be...

Canadian Public Opinion on the American Civil War

Human Remains: Dissection And Its Histories

Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection