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...cottage-or his own-he could unlimber the rules of jousting, describe the nervous systems of fish, discourse on medieval cocktails (one favorite was called Father Whoresonne). He was the first scholar to translate a medieval Latin bestiary into English; he produced a minor classic on falconry (The Goshawk), wrote moving poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Once & Future Merlyn | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...Water) and an entire menagerie (A Zoo in My Luggage). A while back, in his pre-otter period, Gavin Maxwell was out shark hunting (Harpoon at a Venture), and that confirmed medievalist, T. H. White (The Once and Future King), was engaged in the bruising task of training The Goshawk. Now snakes, perhaps the oddest pets of all, have slithered upon the literary scene in the company of a legendary eccentric, C.J.P. Ionides, the Snake Man of British East Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life of a Non-Pukka Sahib | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...turns merry and melancholy, Tim White admits to a lifelong inferiority complex. Spurred by fear, he pushed himself into physical adventure. He has piloted a plane, learned to skindive with ill-fated Commander Crabb, stayed awake three days and nights to achieve mastery over a fierce, untamed hawk (The Goshawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parfit Gentil Knyght | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...this cheery note that Perri is introduced to the hard facts a squirrel is up against in the world of Walt Disney. She is mauled by a goshawk, ripped up by a weasel, and almost torn to pieces by a marten-a lean and eager individual with a bright red tongue that lolls out in an unpleasant way. A forest fire burns down her house, and she winds up in the middle of a beaver pond, riding on the back of a bobcat. On top of all this, Perri will probably not get much sympathy from the critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Goshawk, by T. H. White. What one man discovered about hawks, and himself, when he set out to learn the medieval art of hawking (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Apr. 28, 1952 | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

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