**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer
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. A perfect read for
anyone looking for renewed appreciation for the natural world. 'Helen Macdonald is one of the
best nature writers now working' The Telegraph
