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. 2006, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers.

What had been a game became a quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder. 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. Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession that Got a Little Out of Hand Kenn Kaufman Houghton Mifflin, 1997 - Nature - 318 pages 6 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks. 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. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. 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. 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.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. What had been a game became a quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world. The book is titled Kingbird Highway, and is about how the author, Kenn Kaufman, came to be the youngest person to see over 600 birds in a single year. You may not have found your loins quivering. by Kenn Kaufman RELEASE DATE: June 30, 1997. 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. THE STORY OF A NATURAL OBSESSION THAT GOT A LITTLE OUT OF HAND. At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student.

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. Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand. 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.

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