To See Every Bird on Earth, Dan Koeppel
To See Every Bird on Earth, Dan Koeppel
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To See Every Bird on Earth
A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession

Author: Dan Koeppel

Narrator: John McDonough

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2008


Synopsis

Richard Koeppel's obsession began at age twelve, in Queens, New York, when he first spotted a Brown Thrasher, and jotted the sighting in a notebook. Several decades, one failed marriage, and two sons later, he set out to see every bird on earth, becoming a member of a subculture of competitive bird watchers worldwide all pursuing the same goal. Over twenty-five years, he collected over seven thousand species, becoming one of about ten people ever to do so. To See Every Bird on Earth explores the thrill of this chase, a crusade at the expense of all else-for the sake of making a check in a notebook. A riveting glimpse into a fascinating subculture, the book traces the love, loss, and reconnection between a father and son, and explains why birds are so critical to the human search for our place in the world.

About Dan Koeppel

Dan Koeppel, a 2011 James Beard Award winner, is a well-known outdoors, nature, and adventure writer who has written for the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Audubon, Popular Science, and National Geographic Adventure. Dan has also appeared on CNN and Good Morning America, and is a former commentator for Public Radio International's Marketplace. He is the author of Banana and To See Every Bird on Earth.


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Goodreads review by Mark

A candid memoir of a father’s five decades chasing birds from the vantage point of his son. Over several decades he visited 60 countries and saw over 7,000 bird species. The son seeks to understand the obsession and reflects upon his father and also the birds that so enthralled him.......more

The author, a nature writer, candidly details his father's fifty-year obsession with birding, and how it isolated him from his family. The father, Richard, became entranced with birding from the age of twelve, and with his income from a physician, funds dozens of trips across the globe to rack up ov......more