![]() ![]() ![]() 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. What had been a game became a quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world. 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. 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. Published by Houghton Mifflin in 1997 and still in print, it has become. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. In a new afterword, Kaufman looks at the evolution of bird-listing since his own big year. Aside from the field guides, Kenns best-known book is his Kingbird Highway. 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. ![]() 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. 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. Kingbird Highway The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder By Kenn Kaufman On Sale: Ap18.99 Now: 15.19 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC. ![]()
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