Big Year

Product Description

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 its bird-watching & a contest known as the Big Year
- a grand gruelling expensive (and occasionally vicious) 365-day marathon to identify the most species. The Big Year" is the rollicking chronicle of the 275 000-mile odyssey of three unlikely adventurers who take their bird-watching so seriously it nearly kills them. From Texas in pursuit of the Rufus-capped Warbler to British Columbia in search of Xantus Hummingbird these obsessive enthusiasts brave roasting deserts storm-tossed oceans infested swamps & disgruntled lions (not to mention some of the lumpiest hotel mattresses known to man) as they vie to become North Americas number one bird-watcher in what would prove to be the biggest Big Year of them all... This captivating tour of human & avian nature of courage & deceit of passion & paranoia reveals the extremes to which Man will go to pursue his dreams to conquer & to categorize..."