Lost Among the Birds (eBook)

Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year

Neil Hayward (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
416 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
978-1-63286-580-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;the one"e; or his potential for ruining a new relationship with "e;the next one."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• ISBN-10: 1-63286-580-7 / 1632865807
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63286-580-9 / 9781632865809