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Author:
Helen Macdonald
Publisher:
Grove Press
Date:
August 25, 2020
The bestselling author of H is for Hawk returns with a collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.
What The Reviewers Say
... [Macdonald's] work is an antidote to so much romantic, reductive writing about the natural world as pristine, secret, uninhabited—as a convenient blank canvas for the hero’s journey of self-discovery.
No longer confined to a single grief or creature, Macdonald’s fascination with the natural world ranges from the habits of cuckoos and glowworms to the biodiversity of trees. A lament for the loss of natural habitats ('the world’s sixth great extinction') is inevitable here, but overall Vesper Flights is both more celebratory and more subtly conflicted than her earlier book.
...dazzling.
...[a] radiant new essay collection.
