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FATHER GOOSE: FLY AWAY HOME: THE ADVENTURES OF A WILDLIFE HERO
Due to human interference with their habitat, many migratory birds no longer fly south in winter. Lishman raised a flock of Canada geese from egg to adulthood and, using a microlight aircraft, taught them to follow him on their migratory route - they did indeed believe that he was their "Father Goose". The 18 birds who took off after Lishman in his aircraft in October 1994 have since returned to his Toronto farm. The publication of this book was arranged to coincide with the release of a feature film documenting Lishman's work.
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First published February 1, 1992
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August 22, 2022
I had received Father Goose (1995) by William Lishman as a present many years ago, but despite it being about a rather interesting person and subject, I never somehow got down to reading it. But this year, having added it to my #10BooksofSummer list, I finally did.
Father Goose is an autobiographical account of William Lishman, a Canadian sculptor, naturalist, environmentalist, and pilot who at various times in the 1980s and 1990s trained different skeins of Canadian geese to fly with his lightweight aircraft, initially out of a wish to fly with the birds, but a project that soon got intertwined with conservation efforts related to re-establishing migration routes for birds that had either fallen out of the ability or habit to migrate or that had to be led to new places to help preserve healthy populations. Lishman’s story also became the subject of a film, Fly Away Home (1996) which I haven’t seen and only learnt about when writing a Shelf Control post on this book.
The book opens with Lishman’s own story, glimpses of his early life, his career as a sculptor in which he made some imaginative and renowned pieces, his meeting with his wife, and then his wish to fly (which initially had him joining the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and then attempting to join the Royal Canadian Airforce). Ultimately, though he started to fly with ultralight craft. This gradually took him back to his longstanding wish to fly with the birds. This for Lishman, was not a chance process, but he worked with some others to learn how to imprint geese (or form that bond or connection with them), and the slowly fly with his craft. It isn’t an easy process by any means and sees many setbacks including the loss of a couple of birds in an accident. The efforts gradually expand to working with an entire team of conservationists and fellow enthusiasts to fly the birds to set a migratory path, once to the Arlie Centre, Virginia and with another group to South Carolina see whether the birds would be able to return on their own to Lishman’s home in Canada. The experiments do prove successful but along the way, many challenges have to be faced not only with training the geese and weather conditions, but also the bureaucracy. Still Lishman and his family manage to establish that connection with the geese, the experiments do prove to be largely successful and more than all of that, he does manage to fulfil his life-long dream.
Somehow the impression I’d initially formed of this book (before I started reading it) was a rather romanticised one of rescue geese being taught to migrate with the help of a plane. The actual story turned out quite different but an interesting one all the same.
Lishman had a rather tenuous relationship with his family, particularly his father (whom he felt couldn’t really handle teenagers), though his mother who was an environmentalist was a great influence. It is to her that he dedicates the book and credits for ‘instil[ling in him] a reverence for nature’. His days on his family farm already included time spent with and observing the geese on the farm, so domesticated that they hardly had the ability to fly. As Lishman starts out on his own, we get glimpses of his interest in flying and early attempts to do so and also some insights into his sculpting career in which he created some rather unique and inspiring pieces. His wife Paula went on to establish a successful fashion company in which he too lent a helping hand.
While we don’t directly jump into the goose story as it were, the focus of the book is of course Lishman’s work with the geese. And the experiments and work that he did were indeed fascinating (even if they weren’t quite my imagined line of a ‘natural’ bond forming between person and birds), besides also being painstaking and filled with challenges at every stage. There were some tragedies along the way too, but with effort and a lot (and I do mean a lot) of patience, results were seen as well, even when things took unanticipated turns. This was dedicated work involving months of commitment and effort, which Lishman balanced with his other work and obligations rather admirably.
The book highlights well how the human world and environment has literally turned the ‘natural’ lives of the wild upside down, besides creating death traps all over the place, whether polluted acidic water which makes resting stops for migrating birds deadly, to collisions with powerlines to more direct assaults like hunting. Not only that, as with the geese, urban life and plentiful food have broken many flocks from their annual migrating habits (On a tangent, another book I read had mentioned the changes in badger setts because of urban environments that they now lived in). And if all of these weren’t enough, those few who are attempting conservation must face endless bureaucratic red tape, permissions in Lishman and his team’s case taking so long at times, that the crucial moments needed to act for starting these time-taking experiments were many times lost.
My favourite parts of the book though were Lishman’s descriptions of the actual flight with the birds, observing them so close in the air as to be almost able to touch them, their wing strokes, ability to sense temperatures, symphony between wings and feathers, and yet the effortlessly beautiful way all these complexities turn out. Also wonderful, more so than the actual successful flights were the times when the geese did successfully return in the spring, when with Lishman and the others, one can feel that anxiety over whether or not the birds will make it back on their own.
I found this a very interesting read highlighting issues about birds and changed (or even lost) migratory patterns that I wasn’t aware of as well as work that is being done to put things to rights. But also really, about being able to fly with the birds—a truly magical experience!
Father Goose is an autobiographical account of William Lishman, a Canadian sculptor, naturalist, environmentalist, and pilot who at various times in the 1980s and 1990s trained different skeins of Canadian geese to fly with his lightweight aircraft, initially out of a wish to fly with the birds, but a project that soon got intertwined with conservation efforts related to re-establishing migration routes for birds that had either fallen out of the ability or habit to migrate or that had to be led to new places to help preserve healthy populations. Lishman’s story also became the subject of a film, Fly Away Home (1996) which I haven’t seen and only learnt about when writing a Shelf Control post on this book.
The book opens with Lishman’s own story, glimpses of his early life, his career as a sculptor in which he made some imaginative and renowned pieces, his meeting with his wife, and then his wish to fly (which initially had him joining the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and then attempting to join the Royal Canadian Airforce). Ultimately, though he started to fly with ultralight craft. This gradually took him back to his longstanding wish to fly with the birds. This for Lishman, was not a chance process, but he worked with some others to learn how to imprint geese (or form that bond or connection with them), and the slowly fly with his craft. It isn’t an easy process by any means and sees many setbacks including the loss of a couple of birds in an accident. The efforts gradually expand to working with an entire team of conservationists and fellow enthusiasts to fly the birds to set a migratory path, once to the Arlie Centre, Virginia and with another group to South Carolina see whether the birds would be able to return on their own to Lishman’s home in Canada. The experiments do prove successful but along the way, many challenges have to be faced not only with training the geese and weather conditions, but also the bureaucracy. Still Lishman and his family manage to establish that connection with the geese, the experiments do prove to be largely successful and more than all of that, he does manage to fulfil his life-long dream.
Somehow the impression I’d initially formed of this book (before I started reading it) was a rather romanticised one of rescue geese being taught to migrate with the help of a plane. The actual story turned out quite different but an interesting one all the same.
Lishman had a rather tenuous relationship with his family, particularly his father (whom he felt couldn’t really handle teenagers), though his mother who was an environmentalist was a great influence. It is to her that he dedicates the book and credits for ‘instil[ling in him] a reverence for nature’. His days on his family farm already included time spent with and observing the geese on the farm, so domesticated that they hardly had the ability to fly. As Lishman starts out on his own, we get glimpses of his interest in flying and early attempts to do so and also some insights into his sculpting career in which he created some rather unique and inspiring pieces. His wife Paula went on to establish a successful fashion company in which he too lent a helping hand.
While we don’t directly jump into the goose story as it were, the focus of the book is of course Lishman’s work with the geese. And the experiments and work that he did were indeed fascinating (even if they weren’t quite my imagined line of a ‘natural’ bond forming between person and birds), besides also being painstaking and filled with challenges at every stage. There were some tragedies along the way too, but with effort and a lot (and I do mean a lot) of patience, results were seen as well, even when things took unanticipated turns. This was dedicated work involving months of commitment and effort, which Lishman balanced with his other work and obligations rather admirably.
The book highlights well how the human world and environment has literally turned the ‘natural’ lives of the wild upside down, besides creating death traps all over the place, whether polluted acidic water which makes resting stops for migrating birds deadly, to collisions with powerlines to more direct assaults like hunting. Not only that, as with the geese, urban life and plentiful food have broken many flocks from their annual migrating habits (On a tangent, another book I read had mentioned the changes in badger setts because of urban environments that they now lived in). And if all of these weren’t enough, those few who are attempting conservation must face endless bureaucratic red tape, permissions in Lishman and his team’s case taking so long at times, that the crucial moments needed to act for starting these time-taking experiments were many times lost.
My favourite parts of the book though were Lishman’s descriptions of the actual flight with the birds, observing them so close in the air as to be almost able to touch them, their wing strokes, ability to sense temperatures, symphony between wings and feathers, and yet the effortlessly beautiful way all these complexities turn out. Also wonderful, more so than the actual successful flights were the times when the geese did successfully return in the spring, when with Lishman and the others, one can feel that anxiety over whether or not the birds will make it back on their own.
I found this a very interesting read highlighting issues about birds and changed (or even lost) migratory patterns that I wasn’t aware of as well as work that is being done to put things to rights. But also really, about being able to fly with the birds—a truly magical experience!
June 6, 2016
Operation Migration, a heroic attempt to save the endangered whooping crane and trumpeter swan, was featured in the book Wild Ones, which is all about wildlife and environmental conservation. This book, the memoir of one of the key members of Operation Migration, is mentioned there, and because it involves two of my son’s earlier passions – birds and airplanes – I bought it with the hope of enticing him to read it. Naturally, I read it myself first.
Bill Lishman was an unconventional sculptor barely eking out a living in rural Ontario who also flew a motor-powered hang-glider as a hobby. One day, he found himself flying in the midst of a flock of wild ducks, and he was so jazzed by the experience, he began trying to repeat it. He ended up flying regularly with Canadian geese and attracting a fair bit of media attention to boot. Because of that, he was contacted by scientists in Wisconsin who were working on ways of saving the endangered whooping crane. The idea was to teach the birds new migratory patterns so that they would find better food sources to preserve themselves. The natural ecosystems that would normally sustain them were being destroyed.
The main difference between the two books is that Wild Ones focuses on the cranes, while this one focuses on the geese. And the difference between geese and cranes is that geese, especially Canadian geese, are not endangered. Any failures with them were not so costly as failures with the cranes, and that is why it was important to start with the geese first. Unfortunately, the results were much more successful with the geese than with the cranes. They seem to be the more adaptable birds. That must be why they’re surviving and multiplying to the point of being considered pests while the cranes remain endangered.
Of the two books, I found Wild Ones more engaging. William Lishman’s accomplishments deserve five stars, as do the photographs in the book, but as a storyteller, he’s pretty good, but not consistently engaging.
Bill Lishman was an unconventional sculptor barely eking out a living in rural Ontario who also flew a motor-powered hang-glider as a hobby. One day, he found himself flying in the midst of a flock of wild ducks, and he was so jazzed by the experience, he began trying to repeat it. He ended up flying regularly with Canadian geese and attracting a fair bit of media attention to boot. Because of that, he was contacted by scientists in Wisconsin who were working on ways of saving the endangered whooping crane. The idea was to teach the birds new migratory patterns so that they would find better food sources to preserve themselves. The natural ecosystems that would normally sustain them were being destroyed.
The main difference between the two books is that Wild Ones focuses on the cranes, while this one focuses on the geese. And the difference between geese and cranes is that geese, especially Canadian geese, are not endangered. Any failures with them were not so costly as failures with the cranes, and that is why it was important to start with the geese first. Unfortunately, the results were much more successful with the geese than with the cranes. They seem to be the more adaptable birds. That must be why they’re surviving and multiplying to the point of being considered pests while the cranes remain endangered.
Of the two books, I found Wild Ones more engaging. William Lishman’s accomplishments deserve five stars, as do the photographs in the book, but as a storyteller, he’s pretty good, but not consistently engaging.
May 13, 2021
Loved this. As a child and now a young adult I always loved the 90’s film “Fly Away Home” which was loosely based on Bill Lishman’s life work. This book and his life story is so so much more than the movie. Being a lover of all things wildlife, this book and Bill himself are nothing short of inspiring. The lengths this man went to for his passions and goals blew my mind, it makes me want to try harder in every aspect of my own life. I’m deeply saddened to hear that he has since passed away, but his legacy left an impact that will live on for generations. This book just makes me want to get out in the world and do whatever I can to preserve our wild places and the magnificent creatures that inhabit them. There is no excuse not to. Thank you Bill for your artistry, your dedication, and for sharing this adventure. I like to imagine having coffee one quiet fall morning and seeing the ultra light pass by with the whole flock of geese close behind. What a sight that must’ve been.
February 21, 2013
Fly Away Home With Father Goose
What starts as the tale of a listless man, growing up with dreams of flight and adventure and creativity, transforms into a story of a desperate attempt to save a part of Mother Nature herself.
The man is William Lishman. His tools are an ultralight plane and a flock of geese. And the true-life book is called Father Goose, the inspiration for the wonderful movie Fly Away Home.
Lishman was always filled with a vagabond spirit and a wish for wings that worked, even at a young age. Growing up on a farm in rural Ontario, his wanderlust kept him constantly trying to become a pilot, but various difficulties scuttled that dream. Many years of floating from job to job and locale to locale followed, even after he met and married his wife and started a family. By this point he was becoming a well known, occasionally impoverished, sculpture artist of some reputation. And along the way, the dream of flying still lived on, mostly sated by using hang gliders and ultralights.
As the time trailed on to the eighties, Lishman found out about a local man who had trained Geese to fly behind his boat. Seeking to replicate this, but with a plane, they set about this new goal. Over many years and many attempts, the project rolled on with mixed results. Lishman had to get the birds to imprint on him right from the time they are hatched, then get them used to the plane, then the sound and motion of the engines. Much patience was needed along the way here, with some setbacks seeming to be impossible to conquer.
The end goal was to use this as homework for a larger cause. Geese are not an endangered species, but the Crane is. Part of this is because Cranes had for some reason ceased to migrate, even if their own survival was at stake. Even with differences between these birds, they hoped the experiences with the Geese could be used to teach the Cranes to migrate, all by following an ultralight airplane.
The first attempt to try this is stymied by an increasingly implacable Canadian government officials whose draconian actions and stubborn refusal to listen to reason decimates the project right away.
This low point makes Lishman and crew regroup and rethink. They move back to only using Geese for the first go round, just to prove to that it can be done. With a herculean amount of planning and logistics, they manage to launch and go on their epic journey.
Some days are relatively easy, others become nail-biters, and all for this valuable mission. So many wonderful people help them out along the way, it is truly inspirational. And when they land with the Geese at the appointed location, a sense of relief and happiness floods your senses.
With the successful completion of the first trip now under their belt, they expand for another jaunt for the next year. The flock is increased and the scale antes up as well. All to show how this can be applied to Cranes. When this adventure, with the destination even further south, also ends successfully, Lishman and company are justifiably happy.
Since 1995, when this book was released, they have not yet reached their goal of teaching the Cranes to migrate, but Lishman still holds out hope.
This aspect of Lishman does not surprise me. At the end of the book, he philosophizes and rhapsodizes his theories as to how and why birds migrate. Entering into an abundance of thoughts and ideas, Lishman provides a simple solution, that God is involved.
This coda is echoed by the afterword, wherein fellow bird aficionado Tom Horton goes into a very indepth examination of the history of migration and provides multiple scientific explanations as to why they do this.
In so many ways, this dual ending reinforces the reasons why this book is so important.
One path is the valuable mission to help save endangered species and understand how nature works in all it glory.
The second path is that we have always wanted to be a part of what the birds can do oh so easily.
To fly. To soar. To be in the sky. To experience this ultimate freedom.
That would be lovely.
What starts as the tale of a listless man, growing up with dreams of flight and adventure and creativity, transforms into a story of a desperate attempt to save a part of Mother Nature herself.
The man is William Lishman. His tools are an ultralight plane and a flock of geese. And the true-life book is called Father Goose, the inspiration for the wonderful movie Fly Away Home.
Lishman was always filled with a vagabond spirit and a wish for wings that worked, even at a young age. Growing up on a farm in rural Ontario, his wanderlust kept him constantly trying to become a pilot, but various difficulties scuttled that dream. Many years of floating from job to job and locale to locale followed, even after he met and married his wife and started a family. By this point he was becoming a well known, occasionally impoverished, sculpture artist of some reputation. And along the way, the dream of flying still lived on, mostly sated by using hang gliders and ultralights.
As the time trailed on to the eighties, Lishman found out about a local man who had trained Geese to fly behind his boat. Seeking to replicate this, but with a plane, they set about this new goal. Over many years and many attempts, the project rolled on with mixed results. Lishman had to get the birds to imprint on him right from the time they are hatched, then get them used to the plane, then the sound and motion of the engines. Much patience was needed along the way here, with some setbacks seeming to be impossible to conquer.
The end goal was to use this as homework for a larger cause. Geese are not an endangered species, but the Crane is. Part of this is because Cranes had for some reason ceased to migrate, even if their own survival was at stake. Even with differences between these birds, they hoped the experiences with the Geese could be used to teach the Cranes to migrate, all by following an ultralight airplane.
The first attempt to try this is stymied by an increasingly implacable Canadian government officials whose draconian actions and stubborn refusal to listen to reason decimates the project right away.
This low point makes Lishman and crew regroup and rethink. They move back to only using Geese for the first go round, just to prove to that it can be done. With a herculean amount of planning and logistics, they manage to launch and go on their epic journey.
Some days are relatively easy, others become nail-biters, and all for this valuable mission. So many wonderful people help them out along the way, it is truly inspirational. And when they land with the Geese at the appointed location, a sense of relief and happiness floods your senses.
With the successful completion of the first trip now under their belt, they expand for another jaunt for the next year. The flock is increased and the scale antes up as well. All to show how this can be applied to Cranes. When this adventure, with the destination even further south, also ends successfully, Lishman and company are justifiably happy.
Since 1995, when this book was released, they have not yet reached their goal of teaching the Cranes to migrate, but Lishman still holds out hope.
This aspect of Lishman does not surprise me. At the end of the book, he philosophizes and rhapsodizes his theories as to how and why birds migrate. Entering into an abundance of thoughts and ideas, Lishman provides a simple solution, that God is involved.
This coda is echoed by the afterword, wherein fellow bird aficionado Tom Horton goes into a very indepth examination of the history of migration and provides multiple scientific explanations as to why they do this.
In so many ways, this dual ending reinforces the reasons why this book is so important.
One path is the valuable mission to help save endangered species and understand how nature works in all it glory.
The second path is that we have always wanted to be a part of what the birds can do oh so easily.
To fly. To soar. To be in the sky. To experience this ultimate freedom.
That would be lovely.
August 4, 2014
I have loved the movie "Fly Away Home" and considered it an inspirational movie worthy of viewing in my classroom. I was really pleased to learn that there was a book!
However, I was deeply disappointed to learn how weakly the book and movie were tied. No tween heroine. No interplay between daughter and father. No accident killing the mom.
I decided to read the book anyway. I found it charming. There are parts where I chuckled. That's right: a genuine laugh-out-loud! The photography is compelling!
As a teacher, I didn't like his reaction to school and education but I also saw how a student as he was would be a challenge. I loved how he pursued his passions and learned on his own and how he used experimentation to achieve.
I'd love to really see a movie based on the author's life.
However, I was deeply disappointed to learn how weakly the book and movie were tied. No tween heroine. No interplay between daughter and father. No accident killing the mom.
I decided to read the book anyway. I found it charming. There are parts where I chuckled. That's right: a genuine laugh-out-loud! The photography is compelling!
As a teacher, I didn't like his reaction to school and education but I also saw how a student as he was would be a challenge. I loved how he pursued his passions and learned on his own and how he used experimentation to achieve.
I'd love to really see a movie based on the author's life.
May 30, 2020
This book took me on such an adventure! Bill Lishman flew two flights from Canada to Virginia/N. Carolina to lead flocks of Canadian geese to their winter homes. Why, for study to assist migratory birds to survive! I loved every moment of this story; he and his team had huge obstacles and they just kept moving toward success. Loved the actual flights and all the aspects. I wish everyone could read this, and help us to believe we can do better as caretakers of the Earth. Thank you, to the entire Lishman family, for your part in this story, and I so appreciate your father. God Bless You all. <3
October 5, 2024
Another book lying in a great pile of stuff I've accumulated over the year and never got round to reading. Picked it up to give my brain a holiday from political theory and highly discursive novels. This turned out to be an enjoyable read about the a man pursuing a childhood dream for fly among the birds. From small acorns do great oaks grow....
Lishman is the sort of jack-of-all-trades who turns out to be annoying successful at everything he turns his hand to - mechanics, sculpture, running businesses, micro-lite planes, marriage and family life. For such a man getting to fly among the birds is a mere breeze, so he extends it by becoming the squadron leader of a whole flight of geese who seem to have lost the capacity to migrate. Guess what - he's great at that too....
Science and ecology get an airing, as well as an intriguing speculation that in the period after the Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction 65 million years ago, an intelligent avian species arose which built a civilisation which homo sapiens would have felt at home in. But, as all good things come to an end, the big-brained birds plotted a survival route that involved the dispersal of the genes across thousands of species, each the sorts of talents that would ensure that some sort of bird-hipped creature would always find a route to survival. Charming thought.
But the best chapters cover Lishman's long-distance attempts to imprint migration into his geese on travels that went from his native Ontario to the southern states of the US. He gives us a glimpse of the struggles involved in trying to catch the updrafts that will allow a flyer to ascend to the tops of the Appalachian mountains and the wide expanses of the Great Lakes. If humanity ever gets to the point when dispersing its genes across creatures with the capacity for diverse survival strategies, I want to be a the flying option.
Lishman is the sort of jack-of-all-trades who turns out to be annoying successful at everything he turns his hand to - mechanics, sculpture, running businesses, micro-lite planes, marriage and family life. For such a man getting to fly among the birds is a mere breeze, so he extends it by becoming the squadron leader of a whole flight of geese who seem to have lost the capacity to migrate. Guess what - he's great at that too....
Science and ecology get an airing, as well as an intriguing speculation that in the period after the Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction 65 million years ago, an intelligent avian species arose which built a civilisation which homo sapiens would have felt at home in. But, as all good things come to an end, the big-brained birds plotted a survival route that involved the dispersal of the genes across thousands of species, each the sorts of talents that would ensure that some sort of bird-hipped creature would always find a route to survival. Charming thought.
But the best chapters cover Lishman's long-distance attempts to imprint migration into his geese on travels that went from his native Ontario to the southern states of the US. He gives us a glimpse of the struggles involved in trying to catch the updrafts that will allow a flyer to ascend to the tops of the Appalachian mountains and the wide expanses of the Great Lakes. If humanity ever gets to the point when dispersing its genes across creatures with the capacity for diverse survival strategies, I want to be a the flying option.
January 20, 2024
A truly special & exceptional true story for anyone that resonates with eccentric, eclectic, artistic, inventive, passionate, creator types, who also dearly loves animals & children. It's inspiring, thought-provoking, & touching. If you're one of the personality types above, & also the loving father of a daughter, you should find it a book you will cherish for life. Out of my 5000 plus-book library of non-fiction books, because of my unique personality, lifelong love for animals, & especially my deep love for my now-grown daughter, I would have to rank this as one of my top few favorite books, if not my very favorite. This is again, the true story behind the fantastic movie, "Fly Away Home," starring Jeff Daniels & a young Anna Pacquin, which was beautiful in every way possible. If you haven't seen the movie, I'd watch it first before reading the book.
March 21, 2023
Nothing like the movie which is based off of this book “Fly Away Home” but the book was good. Not my fav but I did enjoy it. My only two complaints is as a ex LA wildlife & fisheries bird rehabber this guy just hatched and imprinted baby geese over and over and over with lots of failed project attempts …maybe Canada has different laws vs here but that’s also unethical. And I found the ending to just be very random and ends abruptly kinda almost like it stops in mid conversation lol.
February 16, 2023
Interesting quest, not particularly well written but I enjoyed it anyway
June 16, 2023
mag bios immer
und diese ist eine besondere selbst wenn sie nicht eiwandfrei geschrieben wurde
und diese ist eine besondere selbst wenn sie nicht eiwandfrei geschrieben wurde
July 15, 2013
The story of William Lishman a noted Canadian sculptor, environmentalist and animal lover who designed his own ultra light plane and taught geese to fly with him. He took them all to Virginia and the following spring, the flock returned unaided to his farm.
Interesting autobiography of this unusual man.
Interesting autobiography of this unusual man.
September 24, 2016
I've had this book on my to-read shelf ever since I saw the movie Fly Away Home in the late 90s. Finally read it! Not bad if you like animal stories. Interesting to look up Operation Migration to see how far the geese experiment has come. As far as stories go, the movie was much better but had very little to do with the book.
July 3, 2013
The real story that inspired the movie "Fly Away Home". A very inspirational story by a local celebrity metal sculptor and aviation enthusiast. His story about his success with imprinting Canadian geese and his wife's (as a fur knit fashion designer) have always warmed my heart.
August 2, 2008
The book that was the basis of the Jeff Daniels movie, Fly Away Home, tells the true tale of a man and an ultralight teaching geese to migrate.
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