The Snow Geese

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  • Author: William Fiennes
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Catalogue: 112793
  • Size: 13x20cm
William Fiennes’ The Snow Geese is the profoundly moving account of both a physical and spiritual migration following snow geese in their spring journey from the South to the Arctic - a joy returning of one man’s rediscovering the world.

Snow geese spend their summers in the Canadian Arctic, on the tundra. Each autumn they migrate south, to Delaware, California and the Gulf of Mexico, and in the spring they fly north again. One year, William Fiennes decided to go with them and to write about his travels. The result is an extraordinary journey, a mesmerizing story about the joys of being alive, of being on the move and - above all - of returning home.

A blend of autobiography and reportage, Fiennes’ subject was in fact also homecoming: the birds on their long journeys home, the grace of homecomings, the strange gravity that home exerts. The arc of Fiennes' extraordinary physical adventure formed the backbone for meditations on philosophy, natural science and personal memoir.

The book thrums with ideas, with stories and anecdotes, with humankind as well as wild fowl, with the funny and observant insights of an assured and highly entertaining writer.