Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
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Book Overview
Pyle's classic account of discovery along the migration trail of monarch butterflies is part natural history, part road trip adventure Although no one had ever followed North American monarch... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0618127437
ISBN13:9780618127436
Release Date:May 2001
Publisher:Mariner Books
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.76 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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Chasing Monarchs. Warning this book may change your life!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Bob Pyle has given us an insightful look into the butterfly lover's life and inspirations. This a nice way to review your own feelings about conservation, the natural world, and how you spend your time. Traveling will never be the same again for me. Now I can boldly ask any convenience store clerk, "Have you seen any Monarchs lately?" This book is a travel log, a natural history lesson, and an expansive look at the world around us.
Pyle's books are fantastic
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This is a great book detailing a threatened bio-phenomenon. As always, you can't go wrong with one of Bob Pyle's books!
Chasing Monarchs Review
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book is excellent; if you loved Anne Dillard's you will love this one. Nuff said.
One of the Big Two for 1999
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I'm amazed no one else wrote about this book. Lepidopterists know it, and Pyle, well. My friends at the New York Butterfly Club put me on to this book and Kurt Johnson's Nabokov's Blues. They are both great books. Pyle's book takes you on a journey from the Pacific Northwest all the way to Mexico, following the annual fall migration of these magnificent orange butterflies. You not only learn about butterflies but a historical travelog of much of the old west, tidbits of local history, fantastic scenery and lots of scientific adventure and daring. Conservation issues are the internal lesson, so you have a worthwhile message along with a great story. The other book, about Nabokov's science is similar-- a great adventure story with butterflies, and a great novelist/writer as central character. Someone told me butterflies are about as popular now as dinosaurs. Its easy to see why. I live and work in the city, so reading about the great outdoors is a great break and fascination. Its wonderful that respected scientists are telling fascinating stories about the creatures they study. You can't go wrong with either of these books.
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