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Wacky, wonderfully funny (and occasionally alarming) story of the race to win the greatest birdwatching competition of all time now a major film.

Each year, hundreds of people set out across North America determined to set a new record in a spectacularly competitive event. Is it tennis? Golf? Racing? Poker perhaps? No, it???s birdwatching, and a contest known as the Big Year ??? a grand, gruelling, expensive (and occasionally vicious) 365day marathon to identify the most species. THE BIG YEAR is the rollicking chronicle of the 275,000mile odyssey of three unlikely adventurers who take their birdwatching so seriously it nearly kills them. From Texas in pursuit of the Rufuscapped Warbler to British Columbia in search of Xantus??? Hummingbird, these obsessive enthusiasts brave roasting deserts, stormtossed oceans, infested swamps and disgruntled lions (not to mention some of the lumpiest hotel mattresses known to man) as they vie to become North America???s number one bird watcher in what would prove to be the biggest Big Year of them all... This captivating tour of human and avian nature, of courage and deceit, of passion and paranoia reveals the extremes to which Man will go to pursue his dreams, to conquer and to categorize...

About the Author
Mark Obmascik has been a journalist for two decades, most recently at the 'Denver Post', where he was lead writer for the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and winner of the National Press Club Award for environmental journalism in 2003. An obsessed birder himself, he lives in Denver with his wife and sons.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780857500694
  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: Film Tie-In
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 272 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0857500694
  • Publisher Date: 08 Dec 2011
  • Depth: 22
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 131 mm


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