The Snow Geese

"A beautiful, haunting debut" MARINA WARNER The joy of being alive, of being on the move and - above all - of returning home is poignantly captured in this intelligent, exuberant book. Snow geese spend their summers on the tundra of the Canadian Arctic. 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. The book that resulted from his travels thrums with ideas, stories and anecdotes, with humankind as well as fowl, with the funny and acute insights of an assured and highly entertaining writer.