The Snow Geese

Travel

William Fiennes

Specialty Travel

Picador

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.
`With this beautiful, haunting debut Fiennes joins that small, very special band of writer-explorers - Emerson and Thoreau, Annie Dilard and Bruce Chatwin - who give us another pair of eyes: he has renewed the variety and wonder of the world` Marina Warner`
Fiennes is a very fine writer and this book is pure delight` Peter Carey, winner of the Booker Prize 2001

Sports & Outdoors

Winter Sports

Picador Paperbacks

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Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Snow geese spend their summers in the Canadian Arctic. Each autumn they migrate south, to Delaware and the Gulf of Mexico. In the spring they fly out north again. William Fiennes decided to go with them and to write about his travels.

The Snow Geese : A Story of Home

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Random House of Canada, Limite

Snow Geese

Travelers & Explorers

Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers? Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the Skin, fifteen writers each explore a different body part: Naomi Alderman unravels the intestines and our obsession with food; Thomas Lynch celebrates the womb as a miracle; AL Kennedy explores the nose's striking ability to conjure memories; and Philip Kerr traces the remarkable history of brain surgery.The human stomach, we discover, contains as many brain cells as a cat has in its head. The lungs weigh about the same as a loaf of bread. A traumatic memory can show itself on the skin. Moving, comical and often unexpected, this is an awe-inspiring voyage through the mysterious landscape of our bodies. Based on the BBC Radio 3 series 'A Body of Essays'.

Beneath The Skin

Science & Math

NAOMI ALDERMAN

PHILIP KERR

Thomas Lynch

A.L. Kennedy

Ned Beauman

Chibundu Onuzo

Daljit Nagra

Mark Ravenhill

Patrick McGuinness

Christina Patterson

Imtiaz Dharker

Abi Curtis

Kayo Chingonyi

Annie Freud

Biological Sciences

Wellcome Collection

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