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No Way But Gentlenesse - A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life (Paperback)
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No Way But Gentlenesse - A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 250
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Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland
Common, Richard Hines remembers heaps of coal dust, listening out
for the colliery siren at the end of shifts and praying for his
father's safe return. When he failed his eleven-plus it seemed all
too likely that he would follow in his father's footsteps and end
up working in the pits - unlike his older brother Barry, who had
passed the exam to grammar school and seemed to be heading for
great things. Crushed by this, Richard spent his time in the fields
and meadows beyond the slag heap. One morning, walking in the
grounds of a ruined medieval manor, he came across a nest of
kestrels. Instantly captivated, he sought out ancient falconry
texts from the local library and pored over the strange and
beautiful language there. With just these books, some ingenuity and
his profound respect for the hawk's indomitable wildness, Richard
learned to 'man', or train, his kestrel, Kes, and in the process
found the passion that would shape his future. Richard's
experiences with kestrels inspired Barry's classic novel A Kestrel
for a Knave. When production began on what would become Ken Loach's
iconic film Kes, Richard himself trained the kestrels that would
soar on screen and into cinematic history. No Way But Gentlenesse
is a superb, moving memoir of one remarkable boy's love for a
forgotten culture, and his attempt to find salvation in the natural
world.
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