{"product_id":"vesper-flights-paperback","title":"Vesper Flights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnimals 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk \u003c\/i\u003ecomes \u003ci\u003eVesper Flights\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eVesper Flights\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Macdonald\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Their books include \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eVesper Flights\u003c\/i\u003e. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KNV","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50580232110427,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/8951\/5850\/files\/zabriskie_macdonald_vesper_flights.jpg?v=1790339766","url":"https:\/\/zabriskie.de\/en\/products\/vesper-flights-paperback","provider":"Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}