Vesper flights / Helen Macdonald.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501982408
- ISBN: 1501982400
- ISBN: 9781705000366
- ISBN: 1705000363
- ISBN: 9781664786363
- ISBN: 1664786368
- ISBN: 9781665015165
- ISBN: 1665015160
- Physical Description: 9 audio discs (10 hours, 15 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, [2020]
- Copyright: ℗2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | In container (17 cm.). Title from container. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restricted to PRINT DISABLED Patrons. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by the author. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Natural history > Miscellanea. Nature. English essays > 21st century. English essays. NATURE / Essays. NATURE / Animals / Birds. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Essays. Audiobooks. |
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | CD 824 MAC (Text) | 000157006 | Audio -- Nonfiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist and academic at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of H is for Hawk, which won the Samuel Johnson prize. This book is a depiction of the grief and depression she fell into after the sudden death of her father in 2007 and how she bounced back through falconry. H is for Hawk, which has just won the £20,000 prize, describes the year Macdonald spent training a goshawk. She writes about subsuming her grief in the relationship with the bird and trying to be like her: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. Her book is the first memoir to win the prize. She will be at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography)