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No way but gentlenesse : a memoir of how Kes, my kestrel, changed my life / Richard Hines.

by Hines, Richard, 1945-

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Bloomsbury, 2016.

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.

9781632865021 (hc.)

First U.S. edition.

271 pages ; 22 cm

"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.

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