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"A fast-paced page-turner and a unique adventure story . . . filled with insights about landscapes, people, and a world of wonderful birds." -- Kenn Kaufman, author of Kingbird HighwayAn epic tale of one passionate birder's record-breaking adventure through 40 countries over 6 continents -- in just one year -- to see 6,852 bird species, rare and common, before many go extinct.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.