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Description: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald "First published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Jonathan Cape"--Title page verso. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world ObserverAnimals dont exist 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.From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches.Vesper Flights is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us. Moving and frank, personal and political, it confirms Helen Macdonald as one of this centurys greatest nature writers.Helen Macdonald is one of the best nature writers now working The Telegraph Author Biography Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator and historian. Her book H is for Hawk won many prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Prix due Meilleur Livre Etranger in France, and in the US was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes a regular column in New York Times Magazine, and lives in Suffolk. Review Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world... A powerful - and entertaining - corrective to the idea that the only hopes that matter on this planet are those of our own species. -- Tim Adams * Observer *Vesper Flights is a book of ideas and urgent, beautiful writing... [Macdonald] is a writer whose every word is to be cherished. -- Tom Lathan * Spectator *Helen Macdonald is one of the best nature writers now working. -- Simon Ings * Telegraph *Books of the Year* *Nature writing at its best... All kinds of wondrous... Each and every essay reminded me what a gifted writer Macdonald is. Her prose is poetry but it also has a drenching kind of a clarity. And this is good because we shouldnt allow ourselves to be lulled by the sheer pleasure of reading her. For these are urgent pieces designed to open our eyes. -- Caroline Sanderson * Bookseller *Book of the Month* *An antidote to so much romantic, reductive writing about the natural world... Macdonalds writing teems with other voices and perspectives, with her own challenges to herself. It muddies any facile ideas about nature and the human, and prods at how we pleat our prejudices, politics and desires into our notions of the animal world... Hers is a gritty, companionable intimacy with the wild... The essays...are short, varied and highly edible. -- Parul Sehgal * New York Times * Review Text Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world... A powerful - and entertaining - corrective to the idea that the only hopes that matter on this planet are those of our own species. Review Quote Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world... A powerful - and entertaining - corrective to the idea that the only hopes that matter on this planet are those of our own species. Promotional "Headline" From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world Details ISBN0099575469 Author Helen Macdonald Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0099575469 ISBN-13 9780099575467 DEWEY 508 Publisher Vintage Publishing Pages 272 Publication Date 2021-08-05 UK Release Date 2021-08-05 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-08-05 NZ Release Date 2021-08-05 Subtitle The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk Imprint Vintage Alternative 9781448130733 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:132297525;

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