Joy is...Many Faces.
Nick Acheson is a conservationist, author, speaker and presenter from North Norfolk where he lives in a flint cottage by a duckpond with his three-legged lurcher and a flock of rescued animals. For ten years, he lived in South America, working with conservation NGOs such as WWF and Wetlands International. He also spent three years in Asia and have worked with wildlife on every continent. Since their return to the UK they have worked for Norfolk Wildlife Trust, The Wildlife Trusts and the Hawk and Owl Trust. Having crossed the globe in search of wildlife and swum and snorkelled in every world ocean, he has become more and more invested in adopting a low carbon lifestyle and is a committed cyclist and keen runner. I spoke to Nick upon the publication of his book ‘The Meaning of Geese’, a memoir of seven locked-down months in 2020-21, during which he cycled 1,200 miles around North Norfolk on his mother's 40-year-old bike, following the great flocks of Arctic geese whose wild cries haunt the county each winter.
Nick is an eloquent and wise soul with a wealth of knowledge that reflects a true and intuitive relationship with the land. Our conversation flitted along many paths and we thought about what it means to pay attention in a disconnected world; heart-centred knowledge and protecting what we love; haunting and what brings us home, and the power of names and finding ourselves through smallness.
Read: The Meaning of Geese, released February 2023
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