· Edward S. Brinkley, editor of North American Birds Journal "Olivia Gentiles Life List is the remarkable story of Phoebe Snetsinger, a woman trapped by her life as homemaker, who found liberation in bird watching. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she began traveling the world, not seeking a cure, but in search of rare birds—becoming a kind of ornithologist's heroine, and living another eighteen years.5/5(1). · Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds by Olivia Gentile is a biography of Phoebe Snetsinger, a birder who at the time of her death had seen 8, of the 9, recognized bird species in the world -- more bird species of than anyone had ever seen before. If you're looking for a book about birds or birding, you may find something more to your liking elsewhere/5. · After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Phoebe Snetsinger, the subject of Olivia Gentile’s first book, invested her time trying to see every bird species in the world. In the process, this.
Olivia Gentile, author of Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, on LibraryThing. Olivia Gentile, author of Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, on LibraryThing. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Phoebe Snetsinger, the subject of Olivia Gentile's first book, invested her time trying to see every bird species in the world. In the process, this American grandmother became the first person ever to see more than 8, species of birds. Life List is her story (Amazon US / Amazon UK). Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds Olivia Gentile, Author Phoebe began her "life list" of birds and gradually began traveling farther afield in search of new.
Anyway, the review of this book, Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds by Olivia Gentile (Bloomsbury USA; ) was finally published today and you can read it on the. Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds by Olivia Gentile () [Olivia Gentile] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A frustrated housewife sets out to see more bird species than anyone in history-and ends up risking her life again and again in the wildest places on earth. Phoebe Snetsinger had planned to be a scientist, but, like most women who got married in the s, she ended up keeping house, with four kids and a home in the suburbs by her mid-thirties. Numb and isolated, she turned to bird-watching, but she soon tired of the birds near home and yearned to.
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