The Snow Goose

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a b Allardice, Lisa. "Winter reads: The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico", The Guardian, December 19, 2011 The Snow Geese is an odd little book. The author William Fiennes, becomes fascinated with snow geese while he is recuperating from a long illness at his family home, and decides to follow the geese as they migrate across America.

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Overall, I really didn't like this book. I had to force myself to read it, only because I usually feel obligated to finish books I start. Hey, die Idee klingt spannend. Er trifft auch viele interessante Menschen auf dem Weg, deren Geschichten seltsamerweise alle spannender sind als seine eigene. (Oder warum erzählt er sie?) This book is really to hard to write about. Very personal to me - the emotional plane is really deep and the characters are well-developed. He de confesar que a pesar de la pobreza (o exceso) que he encontrado en el formato, también han habido aspectos positivos a lo largo de la novela que me gustaría resaltar. Aunque es cierto que la abundancia de comparaciones ralentiza la lectura, también es cierto que me han fascinado la mayoría de ellas (sobretodo cuando comparaba acciones físicas con lenguaje musical). Algo que también he de confesar que me ha encantado es el conjunto de referencias etimológicas, sobre terminología ornitóloga o sobre la nostalgia; y también las pequeñas curiosidades sobre ciertas aves migratorias que Fiennes ha ido recopilando y conociendo a lo largo de su trayecto por Norteamérica. John Ritchie composed "The Snow Goose" for flute and orchestra in 1982. In 1999 a version for flute and piano was created. [10] Allusions and references to real things [ edit ]

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Available Monday to Saturday, our delicious All Day Menu is sure to warm you up during these colder months in Inverness, giving you the perfect excuse to get together at The Snow Goose – while wearing your favourite cosy jumpers, of course. Though his name was well-known in the United States, he was an unknown in the rest of the world. In 1941, the Snow Goose changed all that, and he became, if not a best-selling author by today's standards, a writer who was always in demand. Apart from a short spell as a war correspondent between 1943 and 1946, he was a full-time freelance writer for the rest of his life. He has lived all over the place, including England, Mexico, Lichtenstein and Monaco, and he lived in Antibes for the last years of his life.

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Alles in allem ist es für Ornithologen vielleicht ein ganz niedliches Buch, mich haben die pseudowissenschaftlichen Vogelpassagen eher gestört, wenngleich ich einige der Charaktere, denen er auf dem Weg begegnet, faszinierend fand. So, Rhayader – who has never been given any reason to love his fellow man – heads to France to save who he can. The snow goose flying overhead.

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Men are huddled on the beaches like hunted birds, Frith, like the wounded and hunted birds we used to find and bring to sanctuary. … They need help, my dear, as our wild creatures have needed help, and that is why I must go. It is something that I can do. Yes, I can. For once – for once I can be a man and play my part.” I thought when I bought the book that The Snow Geese would be part memoir/part travel diary (a bit like Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson) but instead it was a book filled almost completely with tangents. Fiennes is a good writer and some of his descriptions are evocative and lovely but there doesn't seem to be a real central theme to the book. For me the most cohesive part of the book is at the very beginning where Fiennes is describing his illness, some of his school-days and his family home. For the rest of the time he doesn't talk about himself at all. He describes in detail the clothing of every person he meets and the conversations he has with them and the various places he stops in along the way but there were no real personal insights or the sense that he really learns anything meaningful on this epic journey through America.