The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Autor Mark Obmasciken Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781451648607
ISBN-10: 145164860X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 137 x 211 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Media Tie-In
Editura: Atria Books
ISBN-10: 145164860X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 137 x 211 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Media Tie-In
Editura: Atria Books
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Recenzii
Stefan Fatsis author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players" Red-breasted nuthatches! Himalayan snowcocks! Spotted woodpeckers! Nutting's flycatchers! "The Big Year" is the Gumball Rally of birding -- a rollicking, nonstop, trans-continental adventure. Mark Obmascik brings the doggedness of an investigative reporter, the grace of an accomplished storyteller, and the compassion of a fellow-traveling obsessive to this alluring quest for avian supremacy.
David Allen Sibley author of "The Sibley Guide to Birds" Mark Obmascik understands birders, and in this book he has ventured bravely into the fringes of the hobby to report on a sort of extreme birding: the big year. It's the best and the worst of birding in one grueling yearlong contest, and you have to admire the rare passion and dedication that a big year attempt requires. The rest of us must be content with daydreaming about it, and this book will undoubtedly be the source of many daydreams.
Jeff Corwin wildlife biologist, executive producer and host of Animal Planet's "The Jeff Corwin Experience""The Big Year" is big fun. A rollicking, feather-ruffler of a read, this uproarious adventure of three men who flew over the cuckoo's nest in their search for avian glory will have you cawing with laughter.
Kenn Kaufman author of "Kaufman Focus Guides: Birds of North America" If you didn't think that a bird book could be a gripping page-turner, "The Big Year" will blow you away. Mark Obmascik has captured the best and the worst of birding, the euphoria and insanity of bird-chasing as an extreme sport, in this vivid, well-crafted epic.
T. R. Reid "Washington Post's" Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief, regular commentator on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition, " and author of "Confucius Lives Next Door" Here's a rare species: a book on birdwatching that turns out to be charming, engrossing, and educational even for people who can't tell a mudhen from a magpie. It was so much fun, I didn't want the big year to end. When it did, there was only one thing to say: "Where'd I put those binoculars?"
David Allen Sibley author of "The Sibley Guide to Birds" Mark Obmascik understands birders, and in this book he has ventured bravely into the fringes of the hobby to report on a sort of extreme birding: the big year. It's the best and the worst of birding in one grueling yearlong contest, and you have to admire the rare passion and dedication that a big year attempt requires. The rest of us must be content with daydreaming about it, and this book will undoubtedly be the source of many daydreams.
Jeff Corwin wildlife biologist, executive producer and host of Animal Planet's "The Jeff Corwin Experience""The Big Year" is big fun. A rollicking, feather-ruffler of a read, this uproarious adventure of three men who flew over the cuckoo's nest in their search for avian glory will have you cawing with laughter.
Kenn Kaufman author of "Kaufman Focus Guides: Birds of North America" If you didn't think that a bird book could be a gripping page-turner, "The Big Year" will blow you away. Mark Obmascik has captured the best and the worst of birding, the euphoria and insanity of bird-chasing as an extreme sport, in this vivid, well-crafted epic.
T. R. Reid "Washington Post's" Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief, regular commentator on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition, " and author of "Confucius Lives Next Door" Here's a rare species: a book on birdwatching that turns out to be charming, engrossing, and educational even for people who can't tell a mudhen from a magpie. It was so much fun, I didn't want the big year to end. When it did, there was only one thing to say: "Where'd I put those binoculars?"
Descriere
Every January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year--a grand, expensive, and occasionally vicious 365-day marathon of birdwatching. For three men in particular, 1998 would become a grueling battle for a new North American birding record. Bouncing from coast to coast on frenetic pilgrimages for once-in-a-lifetime rarities, they brave broiling deserts, bug-infested swamps, and some of the lumpiest motel mattresses known to man. This unprecedented year of beat-the-clock adventures ultimately leads one man to a record so gigantic that it is unlikely ever to be bested. Here, prizewinning journalist Mark Obmascik creates a dazzling, fun narrative of the 275,000-mile odyssey of these three obsessives as they fight to win the greatest-- or maybe worst--birding contest of all time.
Cuprins
Contents
Introduction
1. January 1, 1998
2. A Birder Is Hatched
3. The Early Birds
4. Strategy
5. Bodega Bluff
6. Whirlwind
7. El Niño
8. The Wise Owl
9. Yucatán Express
10. The Big Yak
11. The Cradle of Storms
12. The B.O.D.
13. Doubt
14. Forked
15. Conquest
16. Cape Hatteras Clincher
17. Two in the Bush
18. Nemesis
19. Honorbound
20. December 31, 1998
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. January 1, 1998
2. A Birder Is Hatched
3. The Early Birds
4. Strategy
5. Bodega Bluff
6. Whirlwind
7. El Niño
8. The Wise Owl
9. Yucatán Express
10. The Big Yak
11. The Cradle of Storms
12. The B.O.D.
13. Doubt
14. Forked
15. Conquest
16. Cape Hatteras Clincher
17. Two in the Bush
18. Nemesis
19. Honorbound
20. December 31, 1998
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Notă biografică
Mark Obmascik is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Big Year, which was made into a movie, and Halfway to Heaven. He won the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award for outdoor literature, the 2003 National Press Club Award for environmental journalism, and was the lead writer for the Denver Post team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Denver with his wife and their three sons.
Premii
- Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee, 2005