麻豆社

Helen Macdonald reads from her collection of essays about "love for the glittering world of non-human life around us."

In this episode, she is on the observation deck at the Empire State Building in New York.

Situated more than 1,000 feet up, she finds skies are 'teeming with unexpected biological abundance.'

Each essay in this collection by the acclaimed nature writer explores humanity鈥檚 connection with the natural world, our curiosity about it and our love for it, as well as its increasingly urgent fragility.

The essays are also a reminder that we inhabit a beautiful world, and celebrate it in all its wonder.

Abridged by Julian Wilkinson.

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in August 2020.