With a birders eye for detail, White takes us on [Adrian Mandricks] painful, near death descent[her] lifeaffirming conclusion reminds us that endangered species arent the only ones that need to change and adapt in order to survive.The New York Times Book Review H Is for Hawk meets Grief Is the Thing with Feathers in this evocative debut novel about a pillpopping anesthesiologist and avid birder who embarks on a quest to find one of the worlds rarest species, allowing nothing to get in his wayuntil hes forced to confront his obsessions and what theyve cost him.Adrian Mandrick seems to have his life in perfect order with an excellent job in a Colorado hospital, a wife and two young children he loves deeply, and a serious passion for birding. His life list comprises 863 species correctly identified and catalogedit is, in fact, the third longest list in the North American region. But Adrian holds dark secrets about his childhoodsecrets that threaten to consume him after hes contacted by his estranged mother, and subsequently relapses into an addiction to painkillers. In the midst of his downward spiral, the legendary birder with the regions secondlongest life list dies suddenly, and Adrian receives an anonymous tip that could propel him to the very top the extremely rare Ivorybilled Woodpecker, spotted deep in the swamplands of Floridas Panhandle. Combining sharp, elegant prose with environmental adventure, The Life List of Adrian Mandrick is a poignant, engaging story that...

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Classification: N/A; Weight: 408.94 g; Dimensions: N/A

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