The Meaning of Geese: A Thousand Miles in Search of Home

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Save GEM Book Club: Growth, Empowerment and Meaningful Connections to your collection. Share GEM Book Club: Growth, Empowerment and Meaningful Connections with your friends. During his first degree he spent a year in southern France, on the bank of the Rhône, where greater flamingos, little bustards and pin-tailed sandgrouse became his friends. As he finished his MSc, he went to Bolivia to volunteer for three months on a study of migrant birds. He came home ten years later, having worked in conservation, sustainable development and ecotourism the length and breadth of Bolivia, across South America, and in Australia and India.

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The Meaning of Geese is an intimate study of the intriguing lives of these under-appreciated birds, as well as a window into the inner workings of a naturalist's obsession.' Lee Schofield, author of Wild FellLots of us birders have talked about our move towards staying local or travelling by land or not twitching.” Twitching – rushing to photograph whatever rare bird flits into Britain – seems to be a dirty word. “No it isn’t,” says Acheson, “because I respect that for some people that’s a way of appreciating nature. For me, I’d rather have a relationship with a place and the things that live in it.” Save In Search Of Meaning, Inner Peace, and Strength - Living A Life You Love to your collection. Share In Search Of Meaning, Inner Peace, and Strength - Living A Life You Love with your friends.

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He left Norfolk to study French, then environmental management, at Oxford University. He travelled to Bolivia to study bird migration patterns, planning to stay for three months, but lived there for a decade, mesmerised by jaguar, pink dolphins, and maned wolves. But the bright, boisterous life of the rainforest was coloured with immense sadness as its wildlife retreated. Instead he followed flights of geese, by bicycle across Norfolk and through sightings from fellow naturalists, around the world. He didn’t set out to write a book – “I thought, how am I going to get through this winter? I will write a story about the geese” – but his journal has become The Meaning of Geese, a gorgeously observed paean to the beauty and complexity of these birds, and the landscape of North Norfolk. Acheson grew up here, in a village called Little Snoring. As a boy, he was obsessed with wild animals and inspired to love geese by a teacher, Dave Horsley, who led his school’s bird club. The Meaning of Geese shows us it is possible and necessary to know ourselves and our wild world through a deep intimacy with just one place under the sky - and the simple reach of a mother's happy red-darter-coloured bicycle. In an awe-filled and absorbing portrait, wild geese bring the world and its mysteries to us and our shared landscape.

The Meaning of Geese: following wild geese around Norfolk

Honest, human and heart-grabbing. I loved this book so much.’ Sophie Pavelle, author of Forget Me Not