Publisher's Synopsis
"One page and I was hooked... this book is pure delight." PETER CAREY 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 book thrums with ideas, with stories and anecdotes, with humankind as well as wildfowl, and with funny and observant insights.
