Helen Macdonald

Narrator

Helen Macdonald is a British writer, naturalist, and academic whose nature writing has won widespread acclaim. She is a Research Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, and an affiliated research scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Falcon is a cultural and natural history of the falcon — exploring the bird's... biology, its role in human culture from ancient falconry to modern conservation, and its powerful hold on the human imagination. Macdonald's memoir H is for Hawk, about training a goshawk while grieving her father's death, won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Costa Book of the Year, and was a number one bestseller. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers extraordinary nature writing that weaves together natural history, memoir, and cultural observation with rare beauty and intelligence. Read more Show less