* An amazing story about a journey, and - more importantly - a return home * 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. In the spring they fly north again. William Fiennes decided to go with them and to write about his travels. What he produced turned out to be about very much more than geese. A blend of autobiography and reportage, its subject was 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.
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Höhe: 139 mm
Breite: 107 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-1-4050-0629-3 (9781405006293)
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William Fiennes has contributed to Granta, the London Review of Books, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph and the Times Literary Supplement. He lives in Oxford, England. He is the author of the acclaimed The Snow Geese. Jonathan Firth's TV and film credits include Victoria and Albert, Far from the Madding Crowd, Bait, Middlemarch and Romeo and Juliet. He was nominated for a Best Actor Award for his role as Troy in Far From the Madding Crowd.
