At the ages of 19, 25 and so on Nigel Wheatley dropped out of the rat race and hit the road, in search of his dream birds and the wild places they live in. Over the course of 45 years he has ended up on all seven continents, some several times. A Mind-blowing Birding Trip is a unique story, combining a passionate celebration of the beauty of planet Earth with wild adventures and misadventures with friends. It is a diverting, exciting, exuberant incident-packed tale of depths of despair and heights of euphoria that flows like a shearwater over the sea, while also attempting to capture what birding is all about. Nigel Wheatley is also the author of ... Where to watch birds in South America, 1994 ('Highly recommended' in British Birds magazine's Best Bird Book of the Year Award), Africa (1995), Asia (1996), Australasia and Oceania (1998), Europe and Russia (2000) and, with David Brewer, Central America and the Caribbean (2001), all published by Helm. Here is a review of Africa and Asia by Angus Wilson in Birding magazine ... 'The writing is lively and flowing ... the author's lucid style quickly transports us to the parched deserts of central Asia, the steep, wooded valleys of the Himalayas, or the steaming jungles of Equatorial Africa ... This is exciting stuff.'