Vesper Flights

T he New York Times –bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection ( Wall Street Journal ). In Vesper Flights , Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along 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 and freedom, immigratio