THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThrilling dispatches from a vanishing world ObserverAnimals dont 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 bestloved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches on catching swans on hunting mushrooms on twentiethcentury spies on numinous experiences and highrise 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 centurys greatest nature writers.