Vesper Flights

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'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.

**CHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO WATCH OUT FOR AND A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO READ**

Despre autor

Helen Macdonald

scriitoare britanică · n. 1970

Helen Macdonald este o scriitoare și naturalistă engleză. Este cunoscută în principal ca autoarea cărții „H is for Hawk”, care a câștigat Premiul Samuel Johnson și Premiul Costa Book în 2014; în 2016, cartea a câștigat Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger în Franța.