Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die by Chris Santella
Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die (Illustrated Birding Guide in Dust Jacket)
Birding Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations in a Richly Illustrated Fifty Places Travel Guide
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die: Birding Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations
- Author: Chris Santella
- Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York
- Publication Date: 2007
- ISBN-13: 9781584796299
- ISBN-10: 1584796294
- Binding: Publisher's orange cloth boards with a glossy pictorial dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Medium-large illustrated hardcover, roughly square format, 224 pages. Photographs throughout.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The plain orange cloth boards are clean and unmarked, with sharp corners and no visible bumping. The spine is clean and straight with no fading.
- Interior: The pages are clean and bright, and the text is unmarked. The endpapers are plain orange and clean. The binding is tight, with no foxing, writing or marks.
- The Dust Jacket: Present. The glossy picture jacket of cranes at sunset is in Very Good Plus to Near Fine condition. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover, which has some creasing at the rear flap.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die, published in New York in 2007, brings the popular Fifty Places format to bird-watching. It presents some of the finest birding venues in the United States and further afield, from Alaska and Bhutan to Cape May in New Jersey.
Each chapter is built around a prominent birder's recommendation for a single destination, with interviewees including David Allen Sibley and Kenn Kaufman. Each entry closes with an 'If You Do Go' section covering how to get there, the best time to visit, guides and accommodation.
Illustrated with photographs throughout, this is a handsome armchair-travel volume as well as a practical planning guide. It is a clean, well-kept used collectible copy for birders, travellers and natural history readers.
Author Profile: Chris Santella
Chris Santella was a Portland, Oregon-based freelance writer whose work appeared in the New York Times. He wrote widely on outdoor travel and sport, and became best known for the Fifty Places series, which has sold over 500,000 copies.
His other titles in the series include Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die, Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die and Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die. He died in May 2024 at the age of 61.
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