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Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage

by Robert Pyle

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Publisher Comments:

The monarch butterfly is our best-known and best-loved insect, and its annual migration over thousands of miles is an extraordinary natural phenomenon. Robert Michael Pyle, "one of America's finest natural history writers" (Sue Hubbell), set out late one summer to follow the monarchs south from their northernmost breeding ground in British Columbia. CHASING MONARCHS tells the engrossing story of his adventurous journey with these graceful wanderers — down the Columbia, Snake, Bear, and Colorado rivers, across the Bonneville Salt Flats, and through the Chiricahua Mountains to Mexico, returning north along the California coast. Part travelogue, part scientific study, CHASING MONARCHS is one of the most fascinating books ever written about butterflies. "[Pyle's] delightful anecdotes, thought-provoking philosophical questions and personal passion make this chronicle a potential classic" (Monarch News).

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One of "Granta's" "Best Young American Novelists" returns to the American Midwest with a powerful and often funny chronicle of one October weekend in the lives of a precarious family.

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Part travelogue, part scientific study, "Chasing Monarchs" tells the story of Pyle's adventurous journey following monarch butterflies south from their breeding grounds in British Columbia to Mexico and back along the coast.
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About the Author

Robert Michael Pyle is the author of twelve books, including Where Bigfoot Walks, Wintergreen (winner of the John Burroughs Medal), and The Thunder Tree, and the editor of Nabokov's Butterflies.He has a Ph.D. in ecology from Yale and lives in western Washington.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780618127436
Subtitle:
Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
Author:
Pyle, Robert Michael
Author:
Pyle, Robert Michael
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
Boston
Subject:
Butterflies
Subject:
Butterflies & Moths
Subject:
Animals - Butterflies & Moths
Subject:
Nature Studies-Insects
Copyright:
2001
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
May 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.26x5.52x.82 in. .73 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , One of "Granta's" "Best Young American Novelists" returns to the American Midwest with a powerful and often funny chronicle of one October weekend in the lives of a precarious family.
"Synopsis" by , Part travelogue, part scientific study, "Chasing Monarchs" tells the story of Pyle's adventurous journey following monarch butterflies south from their breeding grounds in British Columbia to Mexico and back along the coast.
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