Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald 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 FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 dont 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 Suffolks 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 centurys 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. Author Biography HELEN MACDONALD is a writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of the bestselling H Is for Hawk, as well as a cultural history of falcons, titled Falcon, and three collections of poetry, including Shalers Fish. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, has worked as a professional falconer, and has assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia. She now writes for the New York Times Magazine. Review Praise for Vesper Flights Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Washington Posts 10 Best Books of 2020 Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, and Literary Hub "Macdonald experiments with tempo and style, as if testing out different altitudes and finding she can fly at just about any speed, in any direction, with any aim she likes, so supple is her style. She writes about migration patterns and storms, nests as a metaphor for the domestic and the danger of using nature as metaphor at all. I was reminded of the goshawk, so thickly plumed, so powerful that it can bring down a deer, and yet it weighs only a few pounds. These are the very paradoxes of Macdonalds prose -- its lightness and force." --Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Vesper Flights is a book of tremendous purpose. Throughout these essays, Macdonald revisits the idea that as a writer it is her responsibility to take stock of whats happening to the natural world and to convey the value of the living things within it." --Washington Post "If youre looking to see the natural world through someone elses eyes, youd be hard-pressed to find a better set than those of Helen Macdonald...[Her] writing is miraculously light and substantive at the same time, and her prose is so beautiful, my review copy was hopelessly dog-eared. What makes her such a great observer is her humility and willingness to crack herself open with awe." --San Francisco Chronicle "MacDonalds writing captures the inexpressible rhythm of being... [Her] essays are, if anything, murmurations for our ominous time - dark yet flashing, stirred from the core." --USA Today "[E]xhilarating... No one describes the everyday natural world with greater power or beauty." --Slate "Dazzling... Ms. Macdonald reminds us how marvelously unfamiliar much of the nonhuman world remains to us, even as we continue to diminish it." --Wall Street Journal "For many this year, the great outdoors has been the great beyond, rendering it impossible to feel at one with nature. For this reason, Vesper Flights is essential reading right now. But it is also a book to relish at any time, both for its intelligence and grace, and its ability to edify and enchant in equal measure." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune "[An] altogether memorable collection . . . Exemplary writing about the intersection of the animal and human worlds." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An inviting collection... infused with wonder, nostalgia, and melancholy." --Publishers Weekly "Gorgeously composed, complexly affecting, and stunningly revelatory." --Booklist (starred review) "An essential writer on nature, humanity, and loss. Macdonald fills her narratives with vivid descriptions of the wildlife that surrounds us." --TIME "A profound meditation on life and freedom." --Entertainment Weekly Praise for H is for Hawk: "Breathtaking . . . Helen Macdonald renders an indelible impression of a raptors fierce essence--and her own--with words that mimic feathers, so impossibly pretty we dont notice their astonishing engineering." --New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Beautiful and nearly feral...H Is for Hawk reminds us that excellent nature writing can lay bare some of the intimacies of the wild world as well." --New York Times "Macdonald is a poet, her language rich and taut." --Chicago Tribune "Captivating and beautifully written, its a meditation on the bond between beasts and humans and the pain and beauty of being alive." --People (Book of the Week) "One of the loveliest things youll read this year . . . Youll never see a bird overhead the same way again. A-" --Entertainment Weekly "Dazzling." --Vogue "Coherent, complete, and riveting, perhaps the finest nonfiction I read in the past year." --New Yorker "An elegantly written amalgam of nature writing, personal memoir, literary portrait and an examination of bereavement. . . . It illuminates unexpected things in unexpected ways." --Washington Post "Glows and burns." --Wall Street Journal "Assured, honest and raw . . . a soaring wonder of a book." --Boston Globe Review Quote Praise for Vesper Flights Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by The New York Times , Entertainment Weekly , TIME , and Literary Hub "Macdonald experiments with tempo and style, as if testing out different altitudes and finding she can fly at just about any speed, in any direction, with any aim she likes, so supple is her style. She writes about migration patterns and storms, nests as a metaphor for the domestic and the danger of using nature as metaphor at all. I was reminded of the goshawk, so thickly plumed, so powerful that it can bring down a deer, and yet it weighs only a few pounds. These are the very paradoxes of Macdonalds prose -- its lightness and force."-- Parul Sehgal, New York Times " Vesper Flights is a book of tremendous purpose. Throughout these essays, Macdonald revisits the idea that as a writer it is her responsibility to take stock of whats happening to the natural world and to convey the value of the living things within it." -- Washington Post "If youre looking to see the natural world through someone elses eyes, youd be hard-pressed to find a better set than those of Helen Macdonald...[Her] writing is miraculously light and substantive at the same time, and her prose is so beautiful, my review copy was hopelessly dog-eared. What makes her such a great observer is her humility and willingness to crack herself open with awe."-- San Francisco Chronicle "MacDonalds writing captures the inexpressible rhythm of being... [Her] essays are, if anything, murmurations for our ominous time - dark yet flashing, stirred from the core." -- USA Today "[E]xhilarating... No one describes the everyday natural world with greater power or beauty." -- Slate "Dazzling... Ms. Macdonald reminds us how marvelously unfamiliar much of the nonhuman world remains to us, even as we continue to diminish it." -- Wall Street Journal "For many this year, the great outdoors has been the great beyond, rendering it impossible to feel at one with nature. For this reason, Vesper Flights is essential reading right now. But it is also a book to relish at any time, both for its intelligence and grace, and its ability to edify and enchant in equal measure." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "[An] altogether memorable collection . . . Exemplary writing about the intersection of the animal and human worlds." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An inviting collection... infused with wonder, nostalgia, and melancholy." -- Publishers Weekly "Gorgeously composed, complexly affecting, and stunningly revelatory."-- Booklist (starred review) "An essential writer on nature, humanity, and loss. Macdonald fills her narratives with vivid descriptions of the wildlife that surrounds us."-- TIME "A profound meditation on life and freedom."-- Entertainment Weekly Praise for H is for Hawk : "Breathtaking . . . Helen Macdonald renders an indelible impression of a raptors fierce essence--and her own--with words that mimic feathers, so impossibly pretty we dont notice their astonishing engineering." -- New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Beautiful and nearly feral... H Is for Hawk reminds us that excellent nature writing can lay bare some of the intimacies of the wild world as well." -- New York Times "Macdonald is a poet, her language rich and taut." -- Chicago Tribune "Captivating and beautifully written, its a meditation on the bond between beasts and humans and the pain and beauty of being alive." -- People (Book of the Week) "One of the loveliest things youll read this year . . . Youll never see a bird overhead the same way again. A-" -- Entertainment Weekly "Dazzling." -- Vogue "Coherent, complete, and riveting, perhaps the finest nonfiction I read in the past year." -- New Yorker "An elegantly written amalgam of nature writing, personal memoir, literary portrait and an examination of bereavement. . . . It illuminates unexpected things in unexpected ways." -- Washington Post "Glows and burns." -- Wall Street Journal "Assured, honest and raw . . . a soaring wonder of a book." -- Boston Globe Description for Sales People Thanks to the runaway breakout success of H is for Hawk , household name Macdonald is now regarded as one of our preeminent nature writers and has a semi-regular column in the New York Times Magazine in which she explores the human relationship to the natural world. Vesper Flights springs from some of these best-loved essays along with newly written ones on a wide range of topics from human migration to the solar eclipse, to Macdonalds own childhood in England. One of our most critical and commercially successful memoirs ever, New York Times Bestseller H is for Hawk sold over 350,000 copies across all formats and was winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, the Costa Book Award, and the Prix due Meilleur Livre Etranger in France; was finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and was a top 10 book of the year for the NYT and O Magazine . H is for Hawk was a Best Book of the Year for Time , NPR , Vogue , Washington Post , Boston Globe , Chicago Tribune , Seattle Times , Miami Herald , St. Louis Post Dispatch , Star Tribune , Library Journal , Publishers Weekly , Kirkus Reviews , Slate , Shelf Awareness , and Book Riot . Macdonald is in constant demand around the world to talk about her writing and her journalism has appeared in countless newspapers and magazines globally. This is the much anticipated first book in an exciting two book deal following Hawk . We expect a similar level of attention for Vesper Flights . Vesper Flights is named for the ornithological phenomenon in which crowds of airborne swifts that have flown all day at lower levels ascend, calling, into the evening skies to spend the night sleeping at high altitudes before descending again at dawn. We will publish simultaneously with Jonathan Cape in the UK. Other international publishers include : Penguin Canada, Anagrama (Spain), De Bezige Bij (Netherlands), Gummerus (Finland), Hanser (Germany), Einaudi (Italy), and Cappelen Damm (Norway). Grove will send Helen MacDonald on a twelve-city tour with significant media attention in September of 2020. Details ISBN0802128815 Pages 288 Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 0802128815 ISBN-13 9780802128812 Format Hardcover Media Book Publisher Black Cat Imprint Black Cat Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2020-08-25 AU Release Date 2020-08-25 NZ Release Date 2020-08-25 US Release Date 2020-08-25 UK Release Date 2020-08-25 Author Helen MacDonald DEWEY 824.92 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137796156;

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