Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald
Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald
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Vesper Flights

Bestseller

Author: Helen Macdonald

Narrator: Helen Macdonald

Unabridged: 10 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/25/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals


Synopsis

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Animals don't 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 century's greatest nature writers. A perfect read for anyone looking for renewed appreciation for the natural world.

"Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world."—Observer

About Helen Macdonald

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian, and naturalist, as well as an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. She also worked as a research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. As a professional falconer, she assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JimZ on December 26, 2020

This book consists of 41 essays about nature, and sometimes about humans, and sometimes about humans interacting with other species on our planet Earth. Helen Macdonald writes very well. I do believe I will seek out her first book, ‘H is for Hawk.’ That got a ton of praise and awards. I have yet to......more

Goodreads review by Bianca (Back, catching up) on February 19, 2021

The other week, I realised that the books that had excited me the most in the past two years or so were either in the nature writing category or/and were about the environment in some way. Vesper Flights is one of those books. My goodness, what an extraordinary writer Macdonald is. She managed to tran......more

Goodreads review by Meike on May 04, 2020

Naturalist Helen Macdonald, author of the immensely successful H is for Hawk, gives us a collection of 41 (!) texts about the "love for the glittering world of non-human life around us", as she herself explains. As the book contains only 272 pages, there are many short essays and even shorter vignet......more