Chilton turned his classroom teaching into book writing when an effort to catalogue all remaining stuffed specimens of an extinct North American bird evolved into an obsessive journey around the world [REF].
On a quest to see all fifty-four stuffed Labrador duck specimens that remain in existence for his first book The Curse of the Labrador Duck, he travelled 72,018 miles by aircraft, 5,461 miles by train, 3,566 miles by car, 1,169 miles by bus and 43 miles by ferry [REF].