Louisa Waugh, Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia Reviews

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Louisa Waugh's Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia brought to life the characters, the countryside, the weather and Louisa herself. It is one of the easiest and most enjoyable reads I have ever had. I have laughed out loud while reading it on the London underground and got some very strange looks!! Louisa has a very special gift for making this story come to life and for the reader to get to know the main people she writes about. Truly inspirational. I will keep recommending this book. Well done Louisa.

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By the time Waugh was ready to set out from Ulaanbaatar to discover rural Mongolia she was well versed in the language and culture and probably felt quite self-assured. That she was immediately propelled into an alien land attempting to teach English to Kazakh's and Tsengel Tuvans in the western-most Bayan- lgii aimag (province), where Mongolians are a minority in their own country, sets a scene of contrasts and conflicts between the people living there, the weather that each season brings, the ...