

The Goshawk
Author: T. H. White
Narrator: Simon Vance
Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/16/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals, Birdwatching Guides, Pets
Author: T. H. White
Narrator: Simon Vance
Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/16/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals, Birdwatching Guides, Pets
T. H. White (1906–1964) is the author of the classic Arthurian fantasy The Once and Future King, among other works. He was born in Mumbai, India, to English parents and educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge. His writings have had a strong influence on both J. K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman.
Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.
Went there after reading H is for Hawk, stayed for the pure pleasure of T. H. White's writing, which totally outweighed Helen Macdonald's retelling of the entire story within her recent book.......more
This is one of those marvelous books that is so small, yet written in a way so that each sentence carries the work of ten. Somehow, it tears your heart out with just a word. Just right out. Because, this book is as much about what lies beneath T.H. White's words as what his words say. His words are......more
This was one of the books that I had to read for O-Level English literature, and it was the only really interesting one out of the set. (These were the UK school exams for 16 year-olds back in the early '70s). This is a role model for those who would practice the craft of writing great literature. Th......more
I had read Helen Macdonald’s “H is for Hawk”, and was fascinated by her discussion of T.H.White and of his book “The Goshawk”. I think that my response to The Goshawk was greatly influenced by Macdonald’s book. As one reads The Goshawk, one becomes aware of the struggles within White, even as he stru......more
“The book chronicles the ambivalent relationship between White, author of The Once and Future King, and the hawk he trained. Their battle of wills ‘gives the book its peculiar charm.’” New York Times
“[A] wonderful, classic account of training a bird of prey.” Daily Mail (London)
“This is a nature classic, conceived against the background of the Second World War…A warm and instructive story.” Sunday Times (London)
“The arduous experience of training a falcon to accept a person as a perch forms the character both of the bird and its keeper. The experience has been vividly described by T. H. White in The Goshawk.” Guardian (London)
“It is comic; it is tragic; it is as primal and original as a great wind…it must be ranked as a masterpiece.” Daily Telegraph (London)
“A classic.” Buffalo News (New York)
“British narrator Simon Vance is the perfect voice for this very British book…Vance’s performance is appropriately donnish, literate, and articulate. He conveys his appreciation for White’s marvelous language with perfect pacing and unflagging attention.” AudioFile
“This is…the best book on falconry, its feel, its emotions, and its flavor, ever written.” Stephen J. Bodio, renowned author and naturalist