| Description |
257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Northeast: Falling in Love at Home -- Now What? -- 2. Arizona: Watching Wezil Walraven Work -- Now What? -- 3. Florida: "This Is Indian Territory! This Is Not the USA! Go Back to England!" -- Now What? -- 4. Michigan: What Charles Pease Shot -- Now What? -- 5. Pacific Northwest: People of the Grass Country -- Now What? -- 6. Texas: No, No, It Was a Ringed Kingfisher -- Now What? -- 7. Colorado: On the Trail of the White-tailed P-TAR-me-jen -- Epilogue: What Now? |
| Summary |
"A Supremely Bad Idea is one man's account of an epic journey around America, in search of the rarest and most beautiful birds the country has to offer. But the birds are only part of it. There are also his crazy companions, Don and Donna Graffiti, who ride shotgun as an innocent comment in a store in Arizona almost turns into an international incident; as a trip through wild Florida turns into a series of (sometimes poetic) fisticuffs: and as Dempsey teeters at the summit of the Rocky Mountains, a displaced Brit falling in love all over again, this time with his adopted country." "Both a paean to avian beauty and a memoir of the back roads of America, A Supremely Bad Idea is a supremely fun comic romp: an environmentally sound This Is Spinal Tap with binoculars."--BOOK JACKET |
| Subject |
Dempsey, Luke.
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Bird watching -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Bird watching -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| LC no. |
2008017683 |
| ISBN |
159691355X (hardcover) |
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9781596913554 (hardcover) |
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