The Big Year - A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Competitive birding: obsession or passion?: If you enjoyed Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague [... more]
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
A rollicking, witty chronicle of the human need to conquer and categorize--in this case, every bird on the planet--no matter how low the stakes. [... more]
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
A journalist with the Denver Post creates a rollicking, dazzling narrative of the 275,000-mile odyssey of three birdwatchers as they fight to the finish to claim the title in the greatest--or maybe the worst--birding contest of all time. [... more]
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Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss
In Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Brad Matsen brings to vivid life the famous deep-sea expeditions of Otis Barton and William Beebe. At a time when no one had traveled deeper than a few hundred feet, they took the world to a half mile down. [... more]
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Every year on January 1, a quirky crowd of adventurers storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year.... [... more]
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
A classic in the making -- an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.brbrIn the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or "birders," spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees [... more]
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Half Told Tales
1917. A collection of short tales by Van Dyke, the American clergyman, diplomat, educator, and author. Contents: A Tale of Travel; Tale of the Two Runners; Tale of the Cursing of Capital; Tale of the Jewels; Tale of a Habitation Forfeited; A Parable of [... more]
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Competitive birding: obsession or passion?: If you enjoyed Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague [... more]
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The Island Of Dr. Moreau
Amazon.com Review: A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a [... more]
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Shortened too short: This story starts out fast paced and tries to cram too much into few pages, then ends predictably and cut short. The reader (meaning me anyway) ends up feeling like something was either left out or not completed to an end that gives [... more]
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The Big Year - A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession
This is not a review, it is info from the back cover:: "Red-breasted nuthatches! Himalayan snowcocks! Spotted woodpeckers! Nutting's flycatchers! The Big Year is the Gumball Rally of birding - a rollicking, nonstop, transcontinental adventure. Mark [... more]
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