Mark Obmascik's Books
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Halfway to HeavenThe beloved author of The Big Year embarks on an outrageous midlife mountain-climbing adventure scaling Colorado’s famous Fourteeners.Read More -
The Big YearA rollicking, witty chronicle of the human need to conquer and categorize--in this case, every bird on the planet--no matter how low the stakes.Read More
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Bookslut, August 3, 2009
...surprising memoir of birding while serving in Iraq, to the insanity of Luke Dempsey's . (See also by Mark Obmascik and by Dan Koeppel) clearly the story of people who look for birds has become as compelling, if not more so, than the animals themselves....
Colorado Daily, May 11, 2009
...Author details quest to climb all of Colorado's Fourteeners Updated 08:08 p.m., May 11, 2009 Mark Obmascik IF YOU GO What: Mark Obmascik discusses ?Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled ? and Knuckleheaded ? Quest for the Rocky Mountain High?...
Chasing Ray, August 4, 2009
...to See it All . (See also The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik and To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, A Son and A Lifelong Obsession by Dan Koeppel) clearly the story of people who look for birds has become...
Living the Mile-High Life, May 15, 2009
...A few years ago I read Obmascik’s first book, The Big Year . It’s about birders who spend a year and thousands of dollars trying to see every bird that visits North America. (In birding circles, that means Canada and the United States. Lots of birds...
