*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, BBC SCIENCE FOCUS MAGAZINE AND TIME MAGAZINE* *A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* 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 ...
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*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, BBC SCIENCE FOCUS MAGAZINE AND TIME MAGAZINE* *A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* 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. 'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world... A powerful - and entertaining - corrective to the idea that the only hopes that matter on this planet are those of our own species' Observer
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Fine in Fine jacket. 1st Printing. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback (slight wear)-in a fine unclipped dustjacket-All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR-Pictures available upon request.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 1st Printing. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback-in a fine unclipped dustjacket-All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-SIGNED & LINED BY THE AUTHOR-Pictures available upon request.
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New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Award Winning Author Helen Macdonald on the Title page. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. New (Pristine Condition) in a New (Pristine Condition) dust jacket; a tight copy which was bought new and never read; opened only for signing. U.K. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line beginning with 1. Signed, signature only, on the Title page by Award Winning Helen Macdonald. Helen won the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award in 2014 for "H is for Hawk". "Vesper Flights" is exemplary writing about the intersection of the animal and human worlds. In "Vesper Flights" Helen 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. "Vesper Flight" is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us. "Vesper Flights" was nominated for the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Science and Technology. Rest assured; this collectible copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
