Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World by Noah Strycker

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year. For 365 days, with a backpack, binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets, he traveled across forty-one countries and all seven continents, eventually spotting 6,042 species—by far the biggest birding year on record. This is no travelogue or glorified checklist. Noah ventures deep into a world of chronic sleep deprivation, airline snafus, breakdowns, mudslides, floods, war zone