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Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time-A True Story about Birdwatching

By Sean Dooley

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
1741145287, 9781741145281
LCC
QL677.5 .D66 2005,QL693.D6 B5 2005
Open Library ID
OL23078745M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2543987 bytes)
Pages
320\336
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

As a self-proclaimed twitcher—a birdwatching extremist who travels around the country trying to catch a glimpse of as many species of birds as possible—the author took a year off in 2002 with the goal of seeing 700 birds and thereby breaking the national record for most birds seen in one year. In this amusing memoir, he recounts his quest, including how he spent all of his inheritance from the untimely death of his parents to make his dream a reality. Populated by unusual characters and interesting species of birds, this part confessional–part travelogue for both bird nerds and the general population follows the author as he works out what it means to be normal despite his unusually avid compulsion toward twitching.

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