e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Hines, Richard, 1945-
Subjects
Hines, Richard, 1945- -- Childhood and youth.
Hines, Barry, 1939- Kestrel for a knave.
Falconry -- Anecdotes.
Kestrels -- Anecdotes.
Human-animal relationships -- Biography.
Barnsley (South Yorkshire, England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Hoyland (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Hoyland (England) -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Hines, Richard, 1945-
by title:
No way but gentlenes...
by call number:
799.232 H662n
Search the Web
Hines, Richard, 1945-
Hines, Richard, 1945- -- Childhood and youth.
Hines, Barry, 1939- Kestrel for a knave.
Falconry -- Anecdotes.
Kestrels -- Anecdotes.
Human-animal relationships -- Biography.
Barnsley (South Yorkshire, England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Hoyland (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Hoyland (England) -- Biography.
MARC Display
No way but gentlenesse : a memoir of how Kes, my kestrel, changed my life /
Richard
Hines
.
by
Hines
,
Richard
,
1945-
Bloomsbury, 2016.
Call #:
799.232 H662n
Subjects
Hines
,
Richard
,
1945-
-- Childhood and youth.
Hines
, Barry, 1939- Kestrel for a knave.
Falconry -- Anecdotes.
Kestrels -- Anecdotes.
Human-animal relationships -- Biography.
Barnsley (South Yorkshire, England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Hoyland (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Hoyland (England) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781632865021 (hc.)
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Description:
271 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
"Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common,
Richard
Hines
remembers sliding down heaps of coal dust, hearing whispers of "accidents" in the pit, listening for the siren at the end of mine shifts, and praying for his father's safe return. At age eleven,
Richard
's prospects suddenly dimmed when he failed the trials for English Grammar School, though his older brother Barry, evidently their mother's favorite, had passed and seemed headed for great things. Crushed by a system that swiftly and permanently decided that some children do not merit a real education, and persecuted by the cruel antics of his English schoolteachers,
Richard
spent his time in the fields and meadows just beyond the colliery slag heap. One morning, walking on the grounds of a ruined medieval manor, he came across a nest of kestrels. Instantly captivated but without a role model to learn from, 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 became a man himself. A breathtaking memoir of one remarkable boy's love for a culture lost to time, and his attempt to find salvation in the natural world.
Richard
Hines
has worked as a building laborer, in an office, and he was Deputy Head in a school. But he has spent most of his career as a documentary filmmaker, starting his own production company and working for the BBC and Channel 4 before becoming a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He lives in Sheffield and frequently walks on the nearby moors."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
799.232 H662n
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
799.232 H662n
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.