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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder - GOOD
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Item specifics
- Condition
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- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 0618709401
- Book Title
- Kingbird Highway : the Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Nature
- Topic
- Animals / Wildlife, Birdwatching Guides, Animals / Birds
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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At 16, Kaufman dropped out of high school and started hitching across America in an effort to see the most birds in a year. "Kingbird Highway" is a unique coming-of-age story, combining a lyrical celebration of nature with wild adventures and some unbelievable characters.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0618709401
ISBN-13
9780618709403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50577018
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kingbird Highway : the Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Wildlife, Birdwatching Guides, Animals / Birds
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Nature
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ql682.K38 2006
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As ornithologist Kenn Kaufman recounts in his lively memoir Kingbird Highway , he's managed to do what other birders only dream of doing: take a year and chase winged creatures from one end of the country to another. The year in question was 1973, when Kaufman was 19 years old, and a few dollars and an outstretched thumb could go a long way. Armed with binoculars, notebook, and the blessing of birder patron saint Roger Tory Peterson, Kaufman set out to capture the record for most species spotted in a single year. He came close, closing with 666 species sighted from Alaska to Florida and back again. More important, he racked up a lifetime's worth of adventures on the road. These stories form the heart of his book, a narrative in which spotted redshanks, white-eared hummingbirds, marbled murrelets, and black-capped gnatcatchers are among the chief supporting players., Kaufman set out on his first solo birding trip when he was 16 years old, on a Greyhound bus, starting in Wichita, Kansas, and ending up in a California jail, for it was illegal for minors to be in that state without adult supervision. So began his quest to set a record: spotting the most North American bird species in a one-year period. Kaufman did just that in 1973, sighting what was then a record 229 species on a grueling hitchhiking trip that took him from Puget Sound to the Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico. Other birding trips followed, from North Dakota to Alaska, from Alaska to Maine, from Maine to Mazatlan in Mexico, and from Arizona to New Jersey. On those arduous trips, too, the author hitchhiked, stopping to work at odd jobs to earn a few dollars. His book is a fascinating memoir of an obsession with birds.
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2006-282730
Dewey Decimal
598.072/3473
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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