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

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But the bright, boisterous life of the rainforest was coloured with immense sadness as its wildlife retreated. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

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As the days shorten, they are guided by the stars to whiffle and glide onto the mud of the North Norfolk coast, bringing in their wake a yearning evoked by meeting travellers who have seen what we never will.They are fed through the winter on the land that I belong to, and they take that with them to the Arctic. His journey across Norfolk could be described as a bit of a wild goose chase in some ways, but it also stands out as a story of love for a landscape and its seasonal visitors. What emerges is a sense of shared passion, and a shared responsibility for the future of these birds.

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Poetic, wry, beautifully observed and possessing a wonderful sense of place, this is note-perfect nature writing. Virtually every day, he cycled 25 miles on his mother’s old red bicycle from his home to the coast and back to seek out not only the pinkfeet, but the brent, barnacle, white-fronted and other even rarer geese that flock here each winter before retreating to the high Arctic in summer. Whereas the brent geese are all throaty and chesty – more of an all-consuming sound that rolls through you. The writing is measured, erudite, unfailingly generous but with an underlying emotional vibrancy that cuts through like an icy wind or the sudden dazzle of winter sun. Twenty years on, Welsh’s auctioneer sleuth Rilke has another mystery to solve – his old mate washes up dead after tipping him off about a house clearance – but this time in a city pockmarked by Grindr, gentrification and a pandemic.

The Meaning of Geese is a book of thrilling encounters with wildlife, of tired legs, punctured tyres and inhospitable weather.