| Description |
ix, 261 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Nests -- Nothing Like a Pig -- Inspector Calls -- Field Guides -- Tekels Park -- High-Rise -- The Human Flock -- The Student's Tale -- Ants -- Symptomatic -- Sex, Death, Mushrooms -- Winter Woods -- Eclipse --In Her Orbit -- Hares -- Lost, But Catching Up -- Swan Upping -- Nestboxes -- Deer in the Headlights -- The Falcon and the Tower -- Vesper Flights -- In Spight of Prisons -- Sun Birds and Cashmere Spheres -- The Observatory -- Wicken -- Storm -- Murmurations -- A Cuckoo in the House -- The Arrow-Stork -- Ashes -- A Handful of Corn -- Berries -- Cherry Stones -- Birds, Tabled -- Hiding -- Eulogy -- Rescue -- Goats -- Dispatches from the Valleys -- The Numinous Ordinary -- What Animals Taught Me. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of essays about humanity's relationship with nature, exploring subjects ranging from captivity and immigration to ostrich farming and the migrations of songbirds from the Empire State Building. |
| Subject |
Natural history -- Miscellanea.
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Nature.
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| Added Author |
Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Nests.
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Nothinglike a pig.
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Inspector calls.
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Field guides.
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Tekels Park.
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
High-rise.
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Human flock.
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Student's tale.
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Ants.
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Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Sympotomatic.
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| ISBN |
9780802128812 |
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