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 teenager\'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..
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 teenager\'s search for his place in the world
