Description: VESPER FLIGHTS by Helen MacDonald (2020, Paperback) ARC UNCORRECTED PROOF Condition: VG. Light shelf wear. Ships with USPS Media Mail. Overview: 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.
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Type: Anthology
Special Attributes: Uncorrected Proof
Book Title: Vesper Flights
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Natural History, General, Ecology, Essays
Genre: Nature, Science, Literary Collections
Author: Helen Macdonald
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
