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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, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences and writes of the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. Vesper Flights is about observation, fascination, time, memory, love, and loss and how we make sense of the world around us.