02642cam a2200349 4500 534288256 TxGeo 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547349442 0547349440 B003K16P46 Amazon 65a0b950-7e78-4424-bb31-6ac9dcc96c2a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3640327 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Kaufman, Kenn. Kingbird Highway [Libby eBook] : The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2469kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2407kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>An ornithologist's account of his youthful, year-long, cross-country birdwatching adventure: "A fascinating memoir of an obsession." —<i>Booklist</i></b><br /> 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.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Science. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=65a0b950-7e78-4424-bb31-6ac9dcc96c2a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=65a0b950-7e78-4424-bb31-6ac9dcc96c2a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=65a0b950-7e78-4424-bb31-6ac9dcc96c2a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5