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Birding Under the Influence

- Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery
Af: Dorian Anderson Engelsk Paperback

Birding Under the Influence

- Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery
Af: Dorian Anderson Engelsk Paperback
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''What an incredible story! Dorian’s adventure is an inspiration for birders and non-birders alike.'' David Lindo, author of The Urban Birder

At a personal and professional crossroad, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a very Big Year.

In Birding Under the Influence, Dorian Anderson, a neuroscience researcher on a pressure-filled life trajectory, walks away from the world of elite institutions, research labs and academic publishing. In doing so, he falls in love and realises he has freed himself to embrace his lifelong passion for birding.

A North American Big Year – a continent-spanning adventure in which a birder attempts to see as many species as possible in twelve months – is a massive undertaking under any circumstances. Breaking the record on a bicycle takes another degree of obsession. And doing all that while sustaining sobriety? That’s next level altogether.

As Dorian pedals across the country, describing the birds he sees, he confronts the challenges of long-distance cycling: treacherous weather, punctured tires, speeding cars and injury. He encounters eccentric characters, blistering blacktop, dreary hotel rooms, snarling dogs and an endless sea of smoking tailpipes. He also confronts his past struggles with alcohol, drugs, and risky behaviours that began in secondary school and followed him into adulthood.

Birding Under the Influence is a candid, honest look at Dorian’s double life of academic accomplishment and addiction. While his story of recovery is simultaneously poignant and inspiring, it is ultimately his love of birds and nature that provides the scaffolding to build a new, radically different life.

"An uplifting and hopeful memoir and social commentary about healing . . . [Birding Under the Influence] is an interesting exploration of the extreme ends that one man went to to overcome his twin demons of alcohol and drug addiction by redirecting his addictive Type-A personality into more healthy pursuits. . . . [It also] provide[s] an interesting glimpse into regional American subcultures."—Forbes

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''What an incredible story! Dorian’s adventure is an inspiration for birders and non-birders alike.'' David Lindo, author of The Urban Birder

At a personal and professional crossroad, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a very Big Year.

In Birding Under the Influence, Dorian Anderson, a neuroscience researcher on a pressure-filled life trajectory, walks away from the world of elite institutions, research labs and academic publishing. In doing so, he falls in love and realises he has freed himself to embrace his lifelong passion for birding.

A North American Big Year – a continent-spanning adventure in which a birder attempts to see as many species as possible in twelve months – is a massive undertaking under any circumstances. Breaking the record on a bicycle takes another degree of obsession. And doing all that while sustaining sobriety? That’s next level altogether.

As Dorian pedals across the country, describing the birds he sees, he confronts the challenges of long-distance cycling: treacherous weather, punctured tires, speeding cars and injury. He encounters eccentric characters, blistering blacktop, dreary hotel rooms, snarling dogs and an endless sea of smoking tailpipes. He also confronts his past struggles with alcohol, drugs, and risky behaviours that began in secondary school and followed him into adulthood.

Birding Under the Influence is a candid, honest look at Dorian’s double life of academic accomplishment and addiction. While his story of recovery is simultaneously poignant and inspiring, it is ultimately his love of birds and nature that provides the scaffolding to build a new, radically different life.

"An uplifting and hopeful memoir and social commentary about healing . . . [Birding Under the Influence] is an interesting exploration of the extreme ends that one man went to to overcome his twin demons of alcohol and drug addiction by redirecting his addictive Type-A personality into more healthy pursuits. . . . [It also] provide[s] an interesting glimpse into regional American subcultures."—Forbes

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781645022237
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1645022234
Udg. Dato: 2 nov 2023
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 230mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Oplagsdato: 2 nov 2023
Forfatter(e): Dorian Anderson
Forfatter(e) Dorian Anderson


Kategori Zoologi: fugle (ornitologi)


ISBN-13 9781645022237


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 22mm


Bredde 230mm


Højde 154mm


Udg. Dato 2 nov 2023


Oplagsdato 2 nov 2023


Forlag Chelsea Green Publishing Co