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Hearing Birds Fly by: Louisa Waugh List Price: CDN$ 17.99 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 13.13 You Save: CDN$4.86 (27%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 915 EAN: 9780349115801 ISBN: 034911580X Label: Abacus Manufacturer: Abacus Number Of Pages: 270 Publication Date: February 03, 2004 Publisher: Abacus Studio: Abacus Sales Rank: 75624 Browse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - All the ups and downs of a rugged, isolated lifestyleAuthor Louisa Waugh moved to a remote village in Mongolia after two years working in the country's capitol: HEARING BIRDS FLY is the first-person account of the year she spent living with the villagers. From the hardships of a dark Mongolian winter into a lush summer and nomadic existence, Waugh's story captures all the ups and downs of a rugged, isolated lifestyle. Rating: - The Spirit of PlaceThis book gave me an intense experience of Tsengel, a village of a few thousand on the farthest western edge of Mongolia. I loved spending four seasons there with Louisa Waugh. The author won the first Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for a work of fiction or non-fiction (this is non-fiction) "evoking the spirit of a place". Waugh has done this superbly. The reader is there with her so fully because she has added her own joys and hardships of that year in Tsengel without a hint of solipsism. She is a generous woman and a generous author. Reading this boook is a great experience. |
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