在黄昏起飞 海伦·麦克唐纳 Helen Macdonald 以鹰之名作者 英文原版 Vesper Flights

基本信息

Format Paperback | 272 pages

Dimensions 129 x 196 x 17mm | 193g

Publication date 05 Aug 2021

Publisher Vintage Publishing

Imprint VINTAGE

Language English

ISBN13 9780099575467

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

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远负盛名的非虚构文学奖塞缪尔·约翰逊奖获奖作者 海伦·麦克唐纳

她的文章，能永久改变你看待世界的眼光

这世界并非只属于人类，它也从未如此。

苞芽中卷拢的新叶、帝国大厦上方飞过的猛禽、婚飞聚集的黑毛蚁、吃完发酵浆果后醉晕的小鸟、丛林中安静长出的蘑菇……一双能与飞鸟对视的双眼，带我们看到这个从来不只属于人类的世界。拜访擅长救助雨燕幼雏的鸟类保育者、在泰晤士河上清点天鹅、参与地外生命的探索考察……在第六次大灭绝的过程中，这个曾经想变成苍鹰、隐入自然的作者，身体力行地记录为地球多样性做出贡献的种种努力。

在《在黄昏起飞》中，海伦·麦克唐纳汇集了她受欢迎的文章，以及新的文章，主题包括对消失的乡村的怀念、养殖鸵鸟的磨难以及她自己试图入睡时的私人晚祷。在沉思囚禁和自由、移民和飞行的概念时，海伦邀请我们进入她最亲密的体验：从帝国大厦观察鸣禽迁徙通过光之敬意，在匈牙利观看数以万计的鹤，在萨福克的白杨林中寻找最后的金莺。她以清晰的笔触写下了野猪、雨燕、采蘑菇、偏头痛、鸟巢的奇特之处，以及我们在观察野生动物时发现的意外指导和安慰。作为本世纪重要和有洞察力的自然作家之一，《在黄昏起飞》是一本关于观察、迷恋、时间、记忆、爱和失去，以及我们如何理解我们周围的世界的迷人和重要的书。

Animals 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.

From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, 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.

Vesper Flights 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.

**CHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO WATCH OUT FOR AND A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO READ**

来自一个正在消失的世界的激动人心的消息… 这是对“地球上重要的希望是我们人类的希望”这一观点的有力且有趣的纠正。 ——蒂姆·亚当斯* Observer *

Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world... A powerful - and entertaining - corrective to the idea that the only hopes that matter on this planet are those of our own species. -- Tim Adams * Observer *

作者简介

海伦麦克唐纳是一位作家、诗人、插画家和历史学家。 她的书《H is for Hawk》赢得了许多奖项，包括塞缪尔约翰逊非小说类小说奖、年度科斯塔图书奖、法国 Meilleur Livre Etranger 奖，并在美国入围国家图书评论家协会奖。 她在《纽约时报》杂志上定期撰写专栏，住在萨福克。

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator and historian. Her book H is for Hawk won many prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Prix due Meilleur Livre Etranger in France, and in the US was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes a regular column in New York Times Magazine, and lives in Suffolk.