The Resource Vesper flights, Helen Macdonald
Vesper flights, Helen Macdonald
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The item Vesper flights, Helen Macdonald represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Haverhill Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Vesper flights, Helen Macdonald represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Haverhill Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk, a brilliant and insightful work about our relationship to the natural world. Our world is a fascinating place, teeming not only with natural wonders that defy description, but complex interactions that create layers of meaning. Helen Macdonald is gifted with a special lens that seems to peer right through it all, and she shares her insights--at times startling, nostalgic, weighty, or simply entertaining--in this masterful collection of essays. From reflections on science fiction to the true story of an Iranian refugee's flight to the UK, Macdonald has a truly omnivorous taste when it comes to observations of both the banal and sublime. Peppered throughout are reminisces of her own life, from her strange childhood in an estate owned by the Theosophical Society to watching total eclipses of the sun, visits to Uzbek solar power plants, eccentric English country shows, and desert hunting camps in the Gulf States. These essays move from personal experiences into wider meditations about love and loss and how we build the world around us. Whether more journalistic in tone, or literary--even formally experimental--each piece is generous, lyrical, and speaks to one another. Macdonald creates a strong thematic undertow that quietly takes the reader along piece to piece and sets them down, finally, at a place they've never been before
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 9 audio discs (10 hr., 15 min.)
- Note
-
- In container (17 cm.)
- Title from container
- Isbn
- 9781705000366
- Label
- Vesper flights
- Title
- Vesper flights
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Macdonald
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk, a brilliant and insightful work about our relationship to the natural world. Our world is a fascinating place, teeming not only with natural wonders that defy description, but complex interactions that create layers of meaning. Helen Macdonald is gifted with a special lens that seems to peer right through it all, and she shares her insights--at times startling, nostalgic, weighty, or simply entertaining--in this masterful collection of essays. From reflections on science fiction to the true story of an Iranian refugee's flight to the UK, Macdonald has a truly omnivorous taste when it comes to observations of both the banal and sublime. Peppered throughout are reminisces of her own life, from her strange childhood in an estate owned by the Theosophical Society to watching total eclipses of the sun, visits to Uzbek solar power plants, eccentric English country shows, and desert hunting camps in the Gulf States. These essays move from personal experiences into wider meditations about love and loss and how we build the world around us. Whether more journalistic in tone, or literary--even formally experimental--each piece is generous, lyrical, and speaks to one another. Macdonald creates a strong thematic undertow that quietly takes the reader along piece to piece and sets them down, finally, at a place they've never been before
- Cataloging source
- RECBC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Macdonald, Helen
- Dewey number
- 824
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- PR1368
- LC item number
- M333 2020ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- other
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Narrated by the author
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Recorded Books, Inc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- English essays
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Vesper flights, Helen Macdonald
- Note
-
- In container (17 cm.)
- Title from container
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1164406106
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 9 audio discs (10 hr., 15 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781705000366
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9781705000366
- Publisher number
- C05103
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1164406106
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Vesper flights, Helen Macdonald
- Note
-
- In container (17 cm.)
- Title from container
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1164406106
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 9 audio discs (10 hr., 15 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781705000366
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9781705000366
- Publisher number
- C05103
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1164406106
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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