Where Does the Wild Goose Go?

One expects New England topics and an emphasis on nature in Willem Lange's pieces. He delivers some of those in The Three Bears (why he no longer hunts bears) and musing about Canada Geese. Then he surprises the reader with excursions to Texas, then to a village where 642 people were massacred in 1944 France. He remembers boyhood fun at YMCA camp and finds primitive campsites, long-abandoned near the Arctic Circle. I find it best to pause before reading a second essay. Clear the mind by doing something else then return to reading. That way each gem of writing stands apart from the rest. Lange is a marvelous wordsmith, so you want to savor the flow of language that wraps around a topic to create a scene or a feeling. Excellent summer reading or great for fireside reading in winter.