Follows the 1998 Big Year competition between Sandy Komito, Al Levantin, and Greg Miller during which the three rivals risked their lives to set a new North American birding record, an event that took them to such locales as Del Rio in search of the rufous-capped warbler and British Columbia in purs[...]

Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude f[...]

Den Pulitzerbelönade Mark Obmascik har skrivit en hisnande bok om tre excentriska fågelfanatiker och om deras vansinnestävling: att under ett år vara den som sett flest fågelarter i Nordamerika och att enbart ägna sig åt detta.

Det Stora Året följer tre män på en desperat j[...]