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1 online resource : illustrations, map |
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Print version record. |
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Prologue; One: Where Have the Owls Gone?; Two: Flight of the Phoenix; Three: Desert Love; Four: Among the Ancients; Five: The Loneliest Road; Six: Restless Nights in Grizzly Country; Seven: Home on the Range; Eight: Twitching for a Rare Bird; Nine: My Old Stomping Grounds; Ten: The Ghost Bird; Eleven: The Siren's Song; Twelve: Alligator Alley; Thirteen: The Eastern Seaboard; Fourteen: Chumming for a Right Whale; Fifteen: The Long Road Home; Sixteen: Out of Place in a Warming World; Epilogue; Acknowledgments. |
| Summary |
Bill Bryson meets John Vaillant in this life list quest to see the rarest species in North America. Crammed into a minivan with wife, toddler, infant, and dog, accompanied by mounds of toys, diapers, tent, sleeping bags, and other paraphernalia, Cameron MacDonald embarks on a road trip of a lifetime to observe North America's rarest species. In California, the family camps in the brutally hot Mojave, where he observes a desert tortoise- "the size and shape of a bike helmet and the colour of gravel" sitting motionless in the shade of a scrubby sagebush. In Yellowstone, after driving through unseasonal snow, he manages to spot a rare black wolf and numerous grizzlies, which, unfortunately, call forth a crowd of "grizzly gawkers." The journey takes the MacDonald family from British Columbia, along the west coast of the U.S., through the Southwest and Florida, up the east coast of the U.S., and finally to eastern Canada and then back home to BC. |
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Macdonald, Cameron -- Travel.
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Macdonald, Cameron -- Family.
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Automobile travel -- United States.
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Automobile travel -- Canada.
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Endangered species -- United States.
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Endangered species -- Canada.
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Insects.
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SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SCIENCE -- Reference.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: MacDonald, Cameron. Endangered Species Road Trip : A Summer's Worth of Dingy Motels, Poison Oak, Ravenous Insects, and the Rarest Species in North America. New York : Greystone Books, ©2013 9781553659358 |
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9781553659365 (electronic bk.) |
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1553659368 (electronic bk.) |
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