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Vesper flights : new and collected essays /

In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays 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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macdonald, Helen, 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, 2020.
Edition:First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Natural history > Miscellanea.
Nature.
English essays > 21st century.
Table of 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.