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Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
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Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
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List price R576
Loot Price R472
Discovery Miles 4 720
You Save R104 (18%)
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From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and
winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a
transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to
the natural world. Animals don't 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. 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. By
one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers,
Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about
observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we
make sense of the world around us.
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