Essays. Selections

Vesper flights : new and collected essays / Helen Macdonald.

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

New York : Grove Press, 2020.

1 online resource (ix, 261 pages)

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 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. Helen Macdonald's bestselling debut H is for Hawk brought the astonishing story of her relationship with goshawk Mabel to global critical acclaim and announced Macdonald as one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers. H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction and the Costa Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, launching poet and falconer Macdonald as our preeminent nature essayist, with a semi-regular column in the New York Times Magazine. 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.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Vesper flights New York : Grove Press, 2020

Non-Fiction

English

Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Nests.
Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Nothinglike a pig.
Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Inspector calls.
Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Field guides.
Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Tekels Park.
Macdonald, Helen, 1970- High-rise.
Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Human flock.
Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Student's tale.
Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Ants.
Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Sympotomatic.

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