Kingbird highway: the biggest year in the life of an extreme birder
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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Book
Physical Desc:
xii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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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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LC Subjects
Adventure and adventurers -- Mexico -- Biography.
Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
Bird watchers -- United States -- Biography.
Bird watching -- Mexico -- Anecdotes.
Bird watching -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Kaufman, Kenn -- Travel -- Mexico.
Kaufman, Kenn -- Travel -- United States.
Mexico -- Description and travel.
United States -- Description and travel.
Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
Bird watchers -- United States -- Biography.
Bird watching -- Mexico -- Anecdotes.
Bird watching -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Kaufman, Kenn -- Travel -- Mexico.
Kaufman, Kenn -- Travel -- United States.
Mexico -- Description and travel.
United States -- Description and travel.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
0618709401 :, 9780618709403
Notes
General Note
Originally published with subtitle: the story of a natural obsession that got a little out of hand. 1997. With new afterword.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Kaufman, K. (2006). Kingbird highway: the biggest year in the life of an extreme birder. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kaufman, Kenn. 2006. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kaufman, Kenn, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kaufman, Kenn. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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