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The Snow Geese

William Fiennes

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#2623 of 3,809 books · #941 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2002).

The Snow Geese won the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. I had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn't move on without the spring. One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins a quest to trace the million-strong flocks of snow geese making their spring flight thousands of miles north to the Arctic tundra. On his epic journey he meets people from every walk of life, from ex-nuns to train fanatics, and their stories resound with the longing to arrive at the right place in the world. A unique blend of autobiography, travel and nature writing, this is a classic tale of belonging and the inescapable lure of home.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781447275459
Topics
Nature and travel writingMigration of snow geesePersonal recovery and journey of self-discovery

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