A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.