26%OFF
Hearing Birds Fly
Louisa Waugh
€ 16.99
€ 12.62
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Hearing Birds Fly
Paperback. * Wonderfully accessible travel book on an inaccessible country - Outer Mongolia. Num Pages: 288 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349115801
SKU
V9780349115801
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Louisa Waugh
Louise Waugh has written for the GUARDIAN on Ulan Bator, and a 10-part series on Mongolia for the BBC World Service.
Reviews for Hearing Birds Fly
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 ... Read more