VESPER FLIGHTS: NEW AND COLLECTED ESSAYS. By Helen Macdonald.

Macdonald (Helen).

ISBN 10: 0802128815 / ISBN 13: 9780802128812

Published by Grove Press. New York. 2020, 2020

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2020). (2020) 2020 1st US edition. 8vo (143 x 217mm). Ppx,261. Not illustrated. Black paper-covered boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Fine new unread copy in dust-wrapper. A collection of Helen Macdonald's recent essays and articles on natural history, some previously published in newspapers and magazines, others completely new. Chapters include: Newts; Nothing like a pig; Inspector calls; Field guides; Tekels Park; High-rise; The human flock; The student's tale; Ants; Symptomatic; Sex, death, mushrooms; Winter woods; Eclipse; In her orbit; Hares; Lost, but catching up; Swan upping; Nestboxes; Deer in the headlights; The falcon and the tower; Vesper flights; In spight (sic) of prisons; Sun birds and cashmere spheres; The observatory; Wicken; Storm; Murmurations; A cuckoo in the house; The arrow-stork; Ashes; A handful of corn; Berries; Cherry stones; Birds, tabled; Hiding; Eulogy; Rescue; Goats; Dispatches from the valleys; The numinous ordinary; What animals taught me. PREVIOUS PRICE £16.99.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: VESPER FLIGHTS: NEW AND COLLECTED ESSAYS. By Helen Macdonald.
• Publisher: Grove Press. New York. 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802128815
• ISBN 13: 9780802128812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.

Animals don’t exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.

In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep.

Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.

By one of this century’s most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us.

About the Author

HELEN MACDONALD is a writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of the bestselling H Is for Hawk, as well as a cultural history of falcons, titled Falcon, and three collections of poetry, including Shaler’s Fish. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, has worked as a professional falconer, and has assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia. She now writes for the New York Times Magazine.