The Jewel Hunter / / Chris Gooddie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gooddie, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2010
• Bliain Foilsithe: 2013
• Eagrán: Course Book
• Teanga: English
• Sraith: WILDGuides ; 57
• Cur Síos Fisiciúil: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 137 color illus. 19 maps.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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, Borneo
• Chapter 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