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Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand Paperback - 2000
by Kenn Kaufman
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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.
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I WENT OUT on the road, to chase my dream, at the age of nine.
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- Title Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand
- Author Kenn Kaufman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Publication date August 12, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780618062355 / 0618062351
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.18 x 5.5 x 0.84 in (20.78 x 13.97 x 2.13 cm)
- Category Nature
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97000581
- Dewey Decimal Code 598.072
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