Mariposa Road (ePub)
Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural...
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Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history,Mariposa Roadtracks Bob Pyle's journey across the United States as he races against the calendar in his search for as many of the eight hundred American butterflies as he can find.Like Pyle's classicChasing Monarchs, Mariposa Roadrecounts 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 Roadis anextraordinary journey of discovery thatleads the reader ever farther into butterfly country anddeeper into the heart of the naturalist.
"What Roger Tory Peterson was for birds, Bob Pyle is for butterflies... From the dusty heat of Texas and the tropical lushness of Hawaii to the legendary outhouse of the Midnight Sun in the Alaskan Arctic, Pyle is a traveling companion who never grows dull." -Scott Weidensaul, author ofOf a Feather
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.
- Autor: Robert Michael Pyle
- 2010, 576 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: HMH Books
- ISBN-10: 0547527853
- ISBN-13: 9780547527857
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2010
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