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The (Big) Year That Flew By
- Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record
- De: Arjan Dwarshuis, Mark Obmascik - foreword
- Narrado por: Madison Niederhauser
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
When Arjan Dwarshuis first heard of the “Big Year”—the legendary record for birdwatching—he was twenty years old, it was midnight, and he was sitting on the roof of a truck in the Andean Mountains. In that moment he promised himself that, someday, somehow, he would become a world-record-holding birder. Ten years later, he embarked on an incredible, arduous, and perilous journey that took him around the globe; over uninhabited islands, through dense unforgiving rainforests, across snowy mountain peaks and unrelenting deserts—in just a single year.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
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- The (Big) Year That Flew By
- Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record
- De: Arjan Dwarshuis, Mark Obmascik - foreword
- Narrado por: Madison Niederhauser
Disappointing
Revisado: 10-14-23
The production on this really messed up. Scattered throughout are random chapters from a different book.
As for the story: It's difficult to tell how much is due to being lost in translation, but the narrative is very boring for much of the book. What should have been one of the most exciting adventure birding stories available frequently sounds more like a bullet point list of emotions, events, and occasionally birds. Frequent jumps back to earlier times in the the author's life tend to be more confusing than they're worth. His position of extreme privilege strongly influences the book in a bad way, and his brief address of it near the end seems highly insincere.
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