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Vesper flights : new and collected essays / Helen Macdonald.

Macdonald, Helen, 1970- (author.) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Nests. (Added Author) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Nothing like a pig. (Added Author) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Inspector calls. (Added Author) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Field guides. (Added Author) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Tekels Park. (Added Author) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- High-rise. (Added Author) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Human flock. (Added Author) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Student's tale. (Added Author) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Ants. (Added Author) Macdonald, Helen, 1970- Symptomatic. (Added Author)

Summary:

Presents a collection of essays about humanity's relationship with nature, exploring subjects ranging from captivity and immigration to ostrich farming and the migrations of songbirds from the Empire State Building.

Contents:

Nests
Nothing like a pig
Inspector calls
Field guides
Tekels Park
High-rise
The human flock
The student's tale
Ants
Symptomatic
Sex, death, mushrooms
Winter woods
Eclipse
In her orbit
Hares
Lost, but catching up
Swan upping
Nestboxes
Deer in the headlights
The falcon and the tower
Vesper flights
In spight of prisons
Sun birds and cashmere spheres
The observatory
Wicken
Storm
Murmurations
A cuckoo in the house
The arrow-stork
Ashes
A handful of corn
Berries
Cherry stones
Birds, tabled
Hiding
Eulogy
Rescue
Goats
Dispatches from the valleys
The numinous ordinary
What animals taught me.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780802128812
  • ISBN: 0802128815
  • Physical Description: ix, 261 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2020.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:
Nests
Nothing like a pig
Inspector calls
Field guides
Tekels Park
High-rise
The human flock
The student's tale
Ants
Symptomatic
Sex, death, mushrooms
Winter woods
Eclipse
In her orbit
Hares
Lost, but catching up
Swan upping
Nestboxes
Deer in the headlights
The falcon and the tower
Vesper flights
In spight of prisons
Sun birds and cashmere spheres
The observatory
Wicken
Storm
Murmurations
A cuckoo in the house
The arrow-stork
Ashes
A handful of corn
Berries
Cherry stones
Birds, tabled
Hiding
Eulogy
Rescue
Goats
Dispatches from the valleys
The numinous ordinary
What animals taught me.

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