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There's a bizarre and wonderful event - the South African Million Buck Pigeon Race - that every year attracts pigeon fanciers to Johannesburg from around the globe. They're an unusual, eccentric group, united only by their love of and obsession using their birds, who'll take a flight more than 300 miles to complete the Mil Buck and then never contest again. In The Arc of the Sun, David Samuels goes to South Africa to travel combined with the racers and their instructors, to learn about the millennia-old - and amazingly emotional - background of the relationship between pigeons and humans, also to find himself, all while bouncing through the South African countryside with a flock of 2,000 parrots and wrestling with the meaning of home in his own life.
