Download PDF by Olivia Gentile: Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing

By Olivia Gentile

ISBN-10: 1596911697

ISBN-13: 9781596911697

After her 4 childrens have been approximately grown and she or he used to be approximately to show 50, Phoebe Snetsinger used to be advised she had lower than a 12 months to dwell. Snetsinger, a St. Louis housewife and avid yard birder, determined to spend that 12 months touring the area looking for birds. because it grew to become out, her medical professionals have been mistaken, yet Phoebe's ardour were ignited and she or he spent the subsequent eighteen years crisscrossing the globe recklessly staking out her quarry. En course she shrunk malaria in Zambia, approximately fell to her loss of life in Zaire, and used to be abducted and gang raped at the outskirts of Port Moresby. but none of this curbed her enthusiasm. by the point she died in a bus twist of fate whereas birding in Madagascar in 1999, Phoebe used to be global popular and had noticeable extra species-8,500 of the approximately 10,000-than somebody in historical past.

A interesting portrait of a hobbiest whose obsession contributed to either her good fortune and her loss of life, Life List brings Phoebe Snetsinger and the wild global of amatuer ornithology to vibrant life.

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