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Excerpt from Adventures in Bird-Land Last summer, on visiting the Orkney Islands, I found that a certain collector had been there two years previously and had actually travelled under my name. This collector knew well that I was staying in the heart of Wales for several weeks. He was well received by certain people, and then, when he had used my name as a protector of birds, to find out the haunts of the rarest species, he decamped with a big haul of clutches. I have no actual proof as to who this person was, but he was described to me as a tall man, with fair, curly hair, who usually wore military puttees. It is needless to say that such underhand action is calculated to cause me serious embarrassment in my work. I mention this to warn gentlemen that they should be careful in giving away the haunts of rare birds to strangers. The conduct I have described is certainly the meanest thing that I have ever known a collector to do, being altogether unworthy of one who calls himself an ornithologist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Self-proclaimed teenage philosopher Cordell Wheaton lives in a sleepy, southern town where nothing ever happens; not since his hero, jazz musician John Coltrane, left some seventy years earlier to "follow the sound." Cordy's life has been unraveling since the night his father and his brother, Travis, exploded on each other. The night Travis's addiction transformed him from budding musician into something entirely different. The night Travis took his saxophone and disappeared. When Cordy's father falls ill, the sixteen-year-old vows to reunite the Wheaton family. He embarks on a modern-day odyssey with forty bucks in his pocket and a dream to find his brother and convince him to be Travis again--by taking him to a show at Birdland Jazz Club in New York City, and reminding him of the common bonds they share with their legendary hero. Cordy's journey is soon haunted by ghostly visions, traumatic dreams, and disembodied voices that echo through his mind. He starts to wonder if the voices are those of the fates, guiding him toward his destiny--or if he's losing his grip on reality.