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Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery
Dorian Anderson
Paperback
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“ One hellhole of a ride . ”—Nick Offerman , actor , woodworker , New York Timesbestselling author“With a fresh extract of adventure , risk , and personal increase . . . .[Anderson get ] a story that is both a pleasure to take and fodder for observation . . . . [ and ] it has inspired me to new hope for my birding . ”—Birding Magazine , American Birding AssociationAt a personal and professional crossroad , a man resets his life and finds sobriety , love , and 618 bird specie , pedal his way to a very Big Year .
InBirding Under the Influence , Dorian Anderson , a neuroscience researcher on a pressure - filled life flight , walks away from the globe of elect institutions , inquiry labs , and academic publication . In doing so , he falls in love and discovers he has freed himself to embrace his womb-to-tomb passion for birding .
A North American Big Year — a continent - spanning adventure in which a birder attempts to see as many species as potential in twelve months — is a monumental labor under any circumstance . But doing it on a cycle while maintain sobriety ? That ’s next storey .
As Dorian pedals across the country , describing the birds he sees , he confronts the challenges of long - distance cycling : punic weather , pierced tyre , speeding cars , and injury . He encounters freaky characters , blistering blacktop , dismal hotel room , snarling dogs , and an dateless ocean of smoke tailpipes . He also confronts his preceding struggle with alcohol , drugs , and risky doings that lead off in mellow school and follow him into adulthood . Birding Under the Influenceis a point-blank , honest flavour at Dorian ’s double spirit of academic accomplishment and dependance . While his journey to recuperation is simultaneously affecting and inspiring , it is at last his love of doll and nature that allow the staging to build a new and radically different life . “Candid and often moving musing . . . make for absorbing indication . . . . [ This is ] a memoir of a journey that was more than just a following after numbers . ”—Booklist(starred)“An uplifting and bright memoir and societal comment about healing . . . [ birdwatch Under the Influence ] is an interesting exploration of the extreme ends that one man went to to overtake his duplicate demons of inebriant and drug addiction by airt his habit-forming case - A personality into more healthy pursuits . . . . [ It also ] provide[s ] an interesting coup d’oeil into regional American subculture . ”—Forbes
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