Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman
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.Kenn Kaufman is the creator of the Kaufman Field Guide series, which includes volumes on birds, butterflies, mammals, and insects. He is one of the world's most well-known bird experts. He's also the author of Lives of North American Birds and the classic Kingbird Highway, as well as two birding autobiographies, Flights Against the Sunset and Flights Against the Sunset. Kenn is a field editor for Audubon and a frequent contributor to birding periodicals such as Bird Watcher's Digest, WildBird, and Birder's World. Rocky Ridge, Ohio is where he and his wife, Kim, call home.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780618709403 |
| ISBN 10 | 0618709401 |
| Title | Kingbird Highway |
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Year published | 2006-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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