Birders: Tales of a Tribe

Cocker, Mark

ISBN 10: 0802139965 / ISBN 13: 9780802139962

Edité par Grove Press, New York, New York, 2003

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Soft cover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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• Titre: Birders: Tales of a Tribe
• Éditeur: Grove Press, New York, New York
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0802139965
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780802139962
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: Softcover Wraps
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Animals, Nature & Man

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Synopsis

For thirty years, journalist Mark Cocker has been a member of a community of fanatics who sacrifice most of their spare time, a good deal of money, sometimes their chances of a partner or family, even their lives, to watch birds. In Birders, Cocker not only introduces lay-readers to the venerable art of birding but shares some of the incredible tales previously circulated only among "the loop," involving unforgettable -- and sometimes deadly -- encounters with everything from pipits, puffins, and plovers to border-patrol officers and horseback bandits. And then there is his personal journey, which began when he discovered a nest of pigeon eggs in his family attic and soon led to the fetishism of his binoculars (or rather, "bins").