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Hearing Birds Fly: A Year in a Mongol..., Waugh, Louisa
US $7.69
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 034911580X
- EAN
- 9780349115801
- Date of Publication
- 20030123
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Hearing Birds Fly: A Year in a Mongolian Village
- Artist
- Waugh, Louisa
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group The Limited
ISBN-10
034911580X
ISBN-13
9780349115801
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038620039
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hearing Birds Fly : a Year in a Mongolian Village
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Her great strength is telling the villager s' stories, which she does with an engaging blend of charm, directness, humour and awe at the power of nature... It is a mark of Waugh's success that the romantic terra incognita she describes, helped by unsentime-- TLS, With a skill and art quite extraordinary for a first book ... the reader is drawn into the world she describes through the warmth of her friendships and the sympathy and generosity with which she treats all aspects of her subject. I put the book down finally with a sense of absolute satisfaction, having spent the last few hours beneath the spell of a writer of real integrity and power, Waugh has captured the starkly beautiful landscapes in restrained descriptive passages, but the most fascinating aspect of her narrative is her portrayal of the villagers and the nomads she meets higher up the mountains... HEARING BIRDS FLY is an extraordi, Waugh has captured the starkly beautiful landscapes in restrained descriptive passages, but the most fascinating aspect of her narrative is her portrayal of the villagers and the nomads she meets higher up the mountains... HEARING BIRDS FLY is an extraordi-- OBSERVER, With a skill and art quite extraordinary for a first book ... the reader is drawn into the world she describes through the warmth of her friendships and the sympathy and generosity with which she treats all aspects of her subject. I put the book down finally with a sense of absolute satisfaction, having spent the last few hours beneath the spell of a writer of real integrity and power-- Chris Stewart, Her great strength is telling the villager s' stories, which she does with an engaging blend of charm, directness, humour and awe at the power of nature... It is a mark of Waugh's success that the romantic terra incognita she describes, helped by unsentime
Synopsis
HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel far away in the west, near the Kazakh border. Her story completely transports the reader to feel the glacial cold and to see the wonders of the Seven Kings as they steadily emerge from the horizon. Through her we sense their trials as well as their joys, rivalries and even hostilities, many of which the author shared or knew about. Her time in the village was marked by coming to terms with the harshness of climate and also by how she faced up to new feelings towards the treatment of animals, death, solitude and real loneliness, and the constant struggle to censor her reactions as an outsider. Above all, Louisa Waugh involves us with the locals' lives in such a way that we come to know them and care for their fates.
LC Classification Number
DS798.2
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Seller feedback (273,402)
- c***n (1699)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseA beautiful book great price.
- o***a (126)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseAs described
- o***n (3883)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat seller, book in xl condition, and fast shipment. aaa+++