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FROM THE PUBLISHER:
A hilarious and informative dash across America in search of its rarest birds.
It began with a weekend house, then weekend trips. Then the occasional meeting rearranged in
favor of a morning in Central Park, just while the spring migration was on. But did he really want
to be... a birder? Didn't that mean he'd be forced to eat granola? And wear a man-pouch?
Before Luke Dempsey
knew it, he had spiraled down into full-on birding mania-finding himself, along with two
like-minded maniacs, charging madly around the country in search of its rarest and most
beautiful birds. A Supremely Bad Idea is the story of that search, and those birds, and
those maniacs, and that country. From Texas to Florida to Michigan, Dempsey narrates an
amazing sequence of encounters with nature and humanity, including a man building a
forty-foot ark in his Seattle backyard; a beautiful woman who shows him how to kill four
thousand cowbirds a year; a coyote (and his human smuggler) on the Rio Grande; and
everywhere, these incandescent birds flitting across the range of his binoculars,
and his heart. With the casual erudition of a Bill Bryson and the comic timing of a British David
Sedaris, Dempsey demonstrates why so many millions of birders care so much about birds - and
why, perhaps, the rest of us should, too.
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.
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