Kenn Kaufman
Kingbird Highway
The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
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An ornithologist's account of his youthful, year-long, cross-country birdwatching adventure: A fascinating memoir of an obsession. -Booklist At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different: not sex, drugs, God, or even self, but birds. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. When he was broke he would pick fruit or do odd jobs to e…
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An ornithologist's account of his youthful, year-long, cross-country birdwatching adventure: A fascinating memoir of an obsession. -Booklist At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different: not sex, drugs, God, or even self, but birds. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. When he was broke he would pick fruit or do odd jobs to earn the fifty dollars or so that would last him for weeks. His goal was to set a record-most North American species seen in a year-but along the way he began to realize that at this breakneck pace he was only looking, not seeing. What had been a game became a quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world. Kingbird Highway is a unique coming-of-age story, combining a lyrical celebration of nature with wild, and sometimes dangerous, adventures, starring a colorful cast of characters.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-547-34944-2
- EAN: 9780547349442
- Produktnummer: 31906003
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'459 KB
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Kenn Kaufman, originator of the Kaufman Field Guide series, is one of the world's foremost naturalists.
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