Lost Among the Birds : Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year Hardback
by Neil Hayward
Hardback
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Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job.
He didn't want to think about his failed relationship with "the one" or his potential for ruining a new relationship with "the next one." And he almost certainly didn't want to think about turning forty. And so instead he went birding. Birding was a lifelong passion. It was only among the birds that Neil found a calm that had eluded him in the confusing world of humans.
But this time he also found competition. His growing list of species reluctantly catapulted him into a Big Year--a race to find the most birds in one year.
His peregrinations across twenty-eight states and six provinces in search of exotic species took him to a hoarfrost-covered forest in Massachusetts to find a Fieldfare; to Lake Havasu, Arizona, to see a rare Nutting's Flycatcher; and to Vancouver for the Red-flanked Bluetail.
Neil's Big Year was as unplanned as it was accidental: It was the perfect distraction to life. Neil shocked the birding world by finding 749 species of bird and breaking the long-standing Big Year record.
He also surprised himself: During his time among the hummingbirds, tanagers, and boobies, he found a renewed sense of confidence and hope about the world and his place in it.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:16/06/2016
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- ISBN:9781632865793
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:16/06/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781632865793