Helen Macdonald

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.

H Is for Hawk

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Pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket is clean and intact. Signed by author. Stated first edition 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

Publishers Weekly (01/18/2016): Macdonald, a British historian, naturalist, and illustrator, made waves with her memoir, "H Is for Hawk" but in her debut collection of poetry she goes beyond simply observing the natural world, displaying the indefatigable curiosity that motivated the early naturalists who inspire her. Macdonald employs her knowledge of the natural sciences as she deftly works scientific discoveries into poems on such subjects as love, politics, solitude, death, and more. Her imagery encompasses biology, geology, physics, weather patterns, and astronomy. For example, in Hyperion to a Satellite, she invokes Widmanstatten patterns found in meteorites: Widmanstatten's grating pat, with a formula/ of primitive and suitably drenched olivine. Noble metals// are dropped onto accident blackspots hailing/ from districts of open light, glossing the connectives// with a discriminating solar bombardment. The rich and heady language calls to mind the tradition of the English Romantic poets while offering wholly new and original constructions: the shade of your eyes approximates the blade as blued dorsal edge/ indigent as the model as side or even air, seen from below// every moment describes some other music/ and I cannot remember banality ever existing. Devoted readers of "H Is for Hawk"will find Macdonald's gift for stunning language, patient curiosity, and expansive wisdom on full display in her poems.

Shaler's Fish

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Pennsylvania

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

California

Front cover has some mild creasing. See photos. Otherwise excellent. See photos. 

Michigan

Rhode Island

**WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2014** As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books.

Virginia

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 don't 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 Suffolk's 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 century's 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.

Vesper Flights

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Colorado

Minnesota

Washington

Illinois

A captivating and heartbreaking memoir on grief and the fierceness of nature. 

Mississippi

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

New York

Vermont

Good to excellent condition. Light wear to corners and edges, see all pics. Winner of the Costa book of the year and the Samuel a Johnson prize for non-fiction. This is one of the most stunning covers of the year. This is the UK edition. 

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