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• W1972065787 abstract "Phoebe Snetsinger was perhaps the most obsessive bird-watcher of modern times. During a lifetime of birding she saw—and clearly identified—more than 8000 species around the world. She did not come to birding early in life and was 34 when she suddenly recognized the beauty and incredible variety of bird species waiting to be seen. However, once she had become enthusiastic, there was no stopping her. Birding is usually thought of as a safe, benign hobby for people not interested in wilder, more dangerous sports, but during her experiences as a world traveler and adventurer, Phoebe Snetsinger faced many emergencies. The first emergency was the diagnosis in 1972 of a malignant melanoma in the middle of her back. As the years passed by, she had several recurrences, but this never diminished her determination to see as many species as possible. After her personal discovery of the third recurrence she decided not to tell anyone, including her husband, and went on a birding trip to Australia, thinking that she probably had metastases throughout her body. On her return, she told her doctor about the discovery that the lesion had grown in the weeks she had been away, but that she had decided to go on the trip, no matter what the outcome. To her surprise and pleasure, her doctor listened to her story and said, “I think that, under the circumstances, I would have done the same.” She says in the book that she could have kissed him. She survived an earthquake in Costa Rica, and, with her husband, was attacked by a gang in New Guinea. She was taken into the forest and gang-raped by 5 men. When the gang had disappeared, she and her husband had a harrowing escape to a friendly village. Incidents of this sort did not slow down her enthusiasm and determination. Ironically, after surviving malignant melanoma and vicious attacks, she was killed in a van accident in Madagascar while napping on a back seat. Phoebe designed a bird classification system for keeping records of her own. (Examples of her handwritten notes are in the book.) She also held a strong view that hearing a bird was not sufficient. In order to add the bird to your life list, you must see it and identify it clearly. If this book had been a graphic account of her travels and adventures—and there were plenty of both—it would appeal to the ordinary reader, but the frequent accounting of exotic birds seen detracts from the readability of the book, for example, “Offsetting such major and minor problems, we found a staggering number of really special birds, such as the Thick-billed Cuckoo, Boehm's Bee-eater, Pale-Billed Hornbill, Blue swallow, Bocage's and Sharpe's Kalatas, Fuellborn's Longclaw, Souza's Shrike, Anchieta's Sunbird, Bar-winged Weaver and Locustfinch.” Balanced against this disadvantage are the beautiful pencil illustrations of many of the species mentioned, drawn by the well-known bird illustrator H. Douglas Pratt. This is definitely a book for the birding aficionado. For anyone aspiring to increase their life-list into the thousands of species and wondering where to go and how to do this, this book should inspire them—even if their bank balance may not allow them to imitate her classic journeys." @default.
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• W1972065787 title "Birding on Borrowed Time" @default.
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