Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Pyle, Robert Michael

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ISBN 10: 0618945393 ISBN 13: 9780618945399

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

Riassunto

Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history,Mariposa Road tracks Bob Pyle’s journey across the United States as he races against the calendar
in his search for as many of the 800 American butterflies as he can find.Like Pyle’s classic Chasing Monarchs, Mariposa Road recounts his adventures, high and low, in tracking down butterflies in his own low-tech, individual way. Accompanied by Marsha, his cottonwood-limb butterfly net; Powdermilk, his 1982 Honda Civic with 345,000 miles on the odometer; and the small Leitz binoculars he has carried for more than thirty years, Bob ventured out in a series of remarkable trips from his Northwest home.From the California coastline in company with overwintering monarchs to the Far Northern tundra in pursuit of mysterious sulphurs and arctics; from the zebras and daggerwings of the Everglades to the leafwings, bluewings, and border rarities of the lower Rio Grande; from Graceland to ranchland and Kauai to Key West, these intimate encounters with the land, its people, and its fading fauna are wholly original. At turns whimsical, witty, informative, and inspirational,Mariposa Road is an extraordinary journey of discovery that leads the reader ever farther into butterfly country and deeper into the heart of the naturalist.

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For Sky Time in Gray's River: "An instant classic...one of the very best accounts of a closely observed life." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Robert Michael Pyle has written a love story about a small piece of land, enchanting and lonely, that he has nurtured for 30 years and that in turn has nurtured him. Crafted in words as lovely and as fresh as a field of spring flowers, every page is an epiphany. Sky Time in Gray's River is destined to become a classic in the literature of place." -- David Campbell, author of A Land of Ghosts For Chasing Monarchs: "[Chasing Monarchs] serves both as tribute to this majestic insect and as a thoughtful tour of the contemporary American West." -- Publishers Weekly "With a keen eye, kaleidoscopic knowledge, and Nabokovian eloquence, Pyle beguiles us to join him on a 9,500-mile journey following migrating monarch butterflies through the mountains and along the rivers from British Columbia to the Mexican border. Chasing Monarchs is a marvelously rich tapestry of natural and human history." -- Lincoln P. Brower "[Pyle] set out three years ago...following the migrating monarchs from Canada to Mexico in his old car and with his old butterfly net. His chronicle of that journey is a pleasure: informative, funny, wonderfully absorbing in its curiosity and erudition about the natural world, and even eloquent." -- The San Francisco Chronicle

L'autore:

Robert Michael Pyle is the author of fourteen books, including Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, and Wintergreen, which won the John Burroughs Medal. A Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim Fellow, he is a full-time writer living in southwestern Washington.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0618945393
• ISBN 13: 9780618945399
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 558