Vesper Flights av Helen Macdonald

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<p><b>**THE<i> SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER**</b><br><br><b>''Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world'' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>From the bestselling author of <i>H is for Hawk</i> comes <i>Vesper Flights</i>, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.<br><br>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.<br><br><i>Vesper Flights</i> 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,