H is for Hawk and Vesper Flights 2 Books Collection Set by Helen Macdonald

H is for Hawk and Vesper Flights is a two-book set by Helen Macdonald. It pairs a memoir with a collection of essays.

Included titles

• H is for Hawk
• Vesper Flights

Synopses

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald writes about a lifelong fascination with falconry, from childhood reading and specialist language to the decision, years later, to train a goshawk after her father’s death. After buying Mabel on a Scottish quayside, she returns to Cambridge and begins the exacting work of trying to tame a fiercely wild bird.

Practical challenges sit alongside an account of grief and its disorientating force, told with candour. With memory, nature and nation at its centre, the book considers what it might mean to reconcile death with life and love, and will suit readers drawn to memoir and nature writing.

Vesper Flights

This essay collection explores the human relationship with the natural world, bringing together best-loved pieces alongside new writing. Macdonald ranges widely, touching on subjects that include headaches, catching swans, hunting mushrooms, twentieth-century spies, numinous experiences and high-rise buildings, as well as nests, wild pigs and farming ostriches.

Across these varied encounters, she returns to observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss, and to the ways we shape the world around us. Frank, moving, personal and political, it is suited to readers who enjoy contemporary nature writing in essay form.

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