The jewel hunter / Chris Gooddie.
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- 9781400847235
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- Gooddie, Chris -- Travel -- Asia
- Bird watching -- Asia
- Asia -- Description and travel
- Pittidae
- Oiseaux -- Observation -- Asie
- Asie -- Descriptions et voyages
- NATURE -- Animals -- Birds
- NATURE -- Birdwatching Guides
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ornithology
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Bird watching
- Pittidae
- Travel
- Asia
- 598.072/345 23
- QL677.5 .G66 2010eb
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Cover; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Glossary; Chapter 1: Quitting the Day Job. High Wycombe, UK; Chapter 2: The Storm Before the Calm. Southern Thailand; Chapter 3: Dry Country Blues. Central, Northern Thailand; Chapter 4: Missing in Action. Luzon, The Philippines; Chapter 5: Jeepneys and Jeopardy. Mindanao, The Philippines; Chapter 6: The Swimming Pool Trail. Southern Vietnam; Chapter 7: One Cup of Tea? Northeast India; Chapter 8: Rusty's Return. Peninsular Malaysia; Chapter 9: The Toktor Will See You Now. Southwest Sumatra; Chapter 10: The Eight Colour Bird. Taiwan.
Chapter 11: Who's the Daddy? Sabah, BorneoChapter 12: The Famous Five. Sabah, Borneo; Chapter 13: The Heart of Darkness. Southwest Uganda; Chapter 14: Mad Dogs and Englishman. Halmahera, Sulawesi, Peleng; Chapter 15: The Mysterious Mr. Klau. Bali, Sumba, West Timor, Flores; Chapter 16: Billabongs and Bowers. Northern Australia; Chapter 17: Strange Days. Manus; Chapter 18: Adrift in Time. The Solomon Islands; Chapter 19: A Rare Bird Indeed. Sri Lanka; Chapter 20: And the First Shall Be Last. Zambia; Acknowledgements; The Treasure Chest.
A tale of one man's obsession with rainforest jewels, this is the story of an impossible dream: a quest to see every one of the world's most elusive avian gems--a group of birds known as pittas--in a single year. Insightful, compelling, and laugh-out-loud funny, this is more than a book about birds. It's a true story detailing the lengths to which a man will go to escape his midlife crisis. A travelogue with a difference, it follows a journey from the suburban straitjacket of High Wycombe to the steamy, leech-infested rainforests of remotest Asia, Africa, and Australia. Danger.
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