Vesper flights / Helen Macdonald.
Animals dont 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. 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 twentiethcentury 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781980036449
- ISBN: 1980036446
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 29 min., 12 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Prince Frederick] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2020.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed August 31, 2020). |
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Subject: | Natural history > Miscellanea. Nature. English essays > 21st century. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |