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Kenn Kaufman

    Kingbird Highway
    Mammals of North America
    Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
    Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America
    Field Guide to Birds of North America
    • Field Guide to Birds of North America

      • 392 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      Collects photographs, range maps, and descriptive entries identifying the markings, habits, habitat, and voice of each species.

      Field Guide to Birds of North America
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    • A comprehensive guide to the insects of North America contains information--including life histories, behaviors, and habitats--on every major group of insects found north of Mexico.

      Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
      4,4
    • Mammals of North America

      • 352 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      This compact, comprehensive field reference treats every species of wild mammal found north of the Mexican border--from squirrels and chipmunks to grizzly bears and jaguars--as well as those in North America's offshore waters. More than 1,200 images.

      Mammals of North America
      4,3
    • Kingbird Highway

      • 336 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      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. 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. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. 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. 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. What had been a game became a quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world. 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.

      Kingbird Highway
      4,3