This account of one man's tempestuous relationship with the hawk he trained is at once a comedy of errors, a classic of nature writing, and one of the best glimpses into the world of falconry. The predecessor to Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk, T. H. White's...
The journal of an intense clash of wills in which the pride and endurance of a wild raptor are worn down by the insistent willpower of a falconer. "I rank The Goshawk as a masterpiece". -- Guy Ramsey, Daily Telegraph