VESPER FLIGHTS: NEW AND COLLECTED ESSAYS. By Helen Macdonald.

(2020) 2020 1st US edition. 8vo (143 x 217mm). Ppx,261. Not illustrated. Black paper-covered boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

A collection of Helen Macdonald's recent essays and articles on natural history, some previously published in newspapers and magazines, others completely new. Chapters include: Newts; 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 (sic) 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.