Vesper Flights
eBook - ePub

Vesper Flights

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Vesper Flights

About this book

T he New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this "dazzling" essay collection ( Wall Street Journal).
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.

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Information

Publisher
Grove Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780802128812
eBook ISBN
9780802146694

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Helen Macdonald
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Nests
  8. Nothing Like a Pig
  9. Inspector Calls
  10. Field Guides
  11. Tekels Park
  12. High-Rise
  13. The Human Flock
  14. The Student’s Tale
  15. Ants
  16. Symptomatic
  17. Sex, Death, Mushrooms
  18. Winter Woods
  19. Eclipse
  20. In Her Orbit
  21. Hares
  22. Lost, But Catching Up
  23. Swan Upping
  24. Nestboxes
  25. Deer in the Headlights
  26. The Falcon and the Tower
  27. Vesper Flights
  28. In Spight of Prisons
  29. Sun Birds and Cashmere Spheres
  30. The Observatory
  31. Wicken
  32. Storm
  33. Murmurations
  34. A Cuckoo in the House
  35. The Arrow-Stork
  36. Ashes
  37. A Handful of Corn
  38. Berries
  39. Cherry Stones
  40. Birds, Tabled
  41. Hiding
  42. Eulogy
  43. Rescue
  44. Goats
  45. Dispatches from the Valleys
  46. The Numinous Ordinary
  47. What Animals Taught Me
  48. Acknowledgements