Vesper Flights. Helen MacDonald

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ALSO BY HELEN MACDONALD

       H Is for Hawk

       Falcon

       Shaler’s Fish

Copyright

      Copyright © 2020 by Helen Macdonald

      Jacket design by Suzanne Dean

      Jacket photograph © Chris Wormell

      Some of these pieces have appeared in different form in the New York Times Magazine, New Statesman and elsewhere.

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      First published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Jonathan Cape

      First Grove Atlantic eBook edition: August 2020

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available for this title.

      eISBN 978-0-8021-4669-4

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       Contents

Cover

Also by Mike Lawson

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

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

       Acknowledgements

Introduction

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