**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
