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Author:

Strycker, Noah K.

Title:

Birding without borders : an obsession, a quest, and the biggest year in the world / Noah Strycker ; foreword by Kenn Kaufman.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

ix, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Strycker, Noah K.--Travel.
Bird watching--Anecdotes.
Bird watchers--Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.

Notes:

Includes indexes. Map on lining papers.

Contents:

End of the world -- The DSP -- Cerro Negro -- Over the years -- The Harpy -- Gunning it -- An angel of peace -- Flying free -- Home -- Missed connections -- Kalu -- The Karamoja Apalis -- A new world record -- Hit and miss -- Birds in paradise -- From end to end.

Summary:

Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world's 10,000 species of birds in one year.

ISBN:

9780544558144
0544558146

OCLC:

(OCoLC)967029023

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)