A collection of essays on themes of flight and captivity and how they intersect in natural and manmade worlds. Essays touch on bird migration, the plight of refugees, and other observations in nature.
General Note
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Jonathan Cape"--Title page verso.
Content Note
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.