eBooks - Biographies - General - Anne Batterson - The Black Swan
The Black Swan eBooks
by Anne Batterson
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The Black Swan Summary
| For fifty-six-year-old Anne Batterson, a woman whose life has been filled with adventure -- as a pilot, a trekking guide in Nepal, an international skydiving champion, a wife and mother -- retirement was a depressing acknowledgement of advancing years. Though her life and marriage were still fulfilling, Anne yearned for some way of reconciling herself to the future. So she packed up her VW camper and hit the road with maps, bird guides, and little else in the way of a plan except to follow migrating birds. The Black Swan is a narrative of that extraordinary trip. In addition to beautifully describing bird migration across the United States, Batterson writes movingly about her children, her husband, her parents, and her own remarkable achievements. And it is through this spiritual journey, combined with the arduous but rewarding physical journey across the country, that Anne Batterson finds self-awareness and ultimately, peace. A unique mix of memoir and nature writing, The Black Swan is a lovely story of a woman's coming of age. |
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| This lyrical memoir, telling of a spontaneous cross-country road trip following migrating birds, is one woman's reflections on midlife, her personal relationships, her kaleidoscopic past, and her uncertain future -- her ultimate acknowledgmnent of becoming part of a more fluid, wild, spare, elegant, and timeless reality. |
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