Summary
"In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity a... Full description
- Nests
- Nothing Like a Pig
- Inspector Calls
- Field Guides
- Tekels Park
- High-Rise
- The Human Flock
- The Student's Tale
- Ants
- Symptomatic
- Sex, Death, Mushrooms
- Winter Woods
- Eclipse
- In Her Orbit
- Hares
- Lost, But Catching Up
- Swan Upping
- Nestboxes
- Deer in the Headlights
- The Falcon and the Tower
- Vesper Flights
- In Spight of Prisons
- Sun Birds and Cashmere Spheres
- The Observatory
- Wicken
- Storm
- Murmurations
- A Cuckoo in the House
- The Arrow-Stork
- Ashes
- A Handful of Corn
- Berries
- Cherry Stones
- Birds, Tabled
- Hiding
- Eulogy
- Rescue
- Goats
- Dispatches from the Valleys
- The Numinous Ordinary
- What Animals Taught Me.