![]() ![]() 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. 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 Paperback Illustrated, Apby Kenn Kaufman (Author) 458 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 19.72 Other new, used and collectible from 1.59 Paperback 14.99 Other new and used from 4. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. Front cover image for Kingbird highway : the biggest year in the life of an. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. Now revered as one of North Americas top birders, Kenn Kaufman hit the road. ![]() 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. 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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