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To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
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- Condition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9781594630019
- Book Title
- To See Every Bird on Earth : a Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Nature
- Topic
- Birdwatching Guides
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 17.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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From a well-known outdoors and nature writer comes a narrative that explores a lifelong obsession with competitive birding. What drives a man to travel to sixty countries and spend a fortune to count birds? And what if that man is your father? Richard Koeppel's obsession began at the age of eleven, in Queens, New York, when he first spotted a Brown Thrasher and promptly jotted the sighting in a notebook. Several decades, one failed marriage, and two sons later, he added an astonishing 517 birds to that list on a single trip to Kenya. Soon after, he ended the last romantic relationship he would ever have, scaled down his medical practice, and decided to see every bird on earth, becoming a "Big Lister," a member of a subculture of competitive bird-watchers worldwide, all pursuing the same goal. Over twenty-five years, he collected more than 7,000 species (of a known 9,600), becoming one of about ten people ever to do so. To See Every Bird on Earthexplores the thrill of this chase, the all-absorbing crusade at the expense of all else, and travel, to places both dangerous and dull, for the sake of making a check mark in a notebook. It's also the story of obsession-answering the questions why list? and why birds?-and how it defines us. A riveting glimpse into a fascinating subculture, To See Every Bird on Earth traces the love, loss, and reconnection between a father and a son, and explains why birds are so critical to the human search for our place in the world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594630011
ISBN-13
9781594630019
eBay Product ID (ePID)
154400270
Product Key Features
Book Title
To See Every Bird on Earth : a Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Birdwatching Guides
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Nature
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ql677.5.K614 2005
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-000476
Dewey Decimal
598/.072/34
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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