Now revered as one of North America's top birders, Kenn Kaufman hit the road at age sixteen and spent a year crisscrossing the country to see as many birds as he could, in a birding competition known as a "big year." In what has become a classic among birders, this memoir chronicles the subculture of birding in the 1970s and a young man's search for his place in the world.In a new afterword, Kaufman looks at the evolution of bird-listing since his own big year.
- ISBN10 0618062351
- ISBN13 9780618062355
- Publish Date 12 August 2000
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 April 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English