The Jewel Hunter / / Chris Gooddie.
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 ab...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | WILDGuides ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 137 color illus. 19 maps. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Glossary -- |t Chapter 1. Quitting the Day Job. High Wycombe, UK -- |t Chapter 2. The Storm Before the Calm. Southern Thailand -- |t Chapter 3. Dry Country Blues. Central, Northern Thailand -- |t Chapter 4. Missing in Action. Luzon, The Philippines -- |t Chapter 5. Jeepneys and Jeopardy. Mindanao, The Philippines -- |t Chapter 6. The Swimming Pool Trail. Southern Vietnam -- |t Chapter 7. One Cup of Tea? Northeast India -- |t Chapter 8. Rusty's Return. Peninsular Malaysia -- |t Chapter 9. The Toktor Will See You Now. Southwest Sumatra -- |t Chapter 10. The Eight Colour Bird. Taiwan -- |t Chapter 11. Who's the Daddy? Sabah, Borneo -- |t Chapter 12. The Famous Five. Sabah, Borneo -- |t Chapter 13. The Heart of Darkness. Southwest Uganda -- |t Chapter 14. Mad Dogs and Englishman. Halmahera, Sulawesi, Peleng -- |t Chapter 15. The Mysterious Mr. Klau. Bali, Sumba, West Timor, Flores -- |t Chapter 16. Billabongs and Bowers. Northern Australia -- |t Chapter 17. Strange Days. Manus -- |t Chapter 18. Adrift in Time. The Solomon Islands -- |t Chapter 19. A Rare Bird Indeed. Sri Lanka -- |t Chapter 20. And the First Shall Be Last. Zambia -- |t Acknowledgements -- |t The Treasure Chest |
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| 520 | |a 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. Dangerous situations, personal traumas, and logistical nightmares threaten The Jewel Hunter's progress. Will venomous snakes or razor-clawed bears intervene? Or will running out of fuel mid-Pacific ultimately sink the mission? The race is on. . . . If you've ever yearned to escape your day job, wondered what makes men tick, or simply puzzled over how to make a truly world-class cup of tea, this is a book for you. | ||
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