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Chasing Monarchs: Migrating With the Butterflies of Passage Hardcover - 1999
by Pyle, Robert Michael
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- Title Chasing Monarchs: Migrating With the Butterflies of Passage
- Author Pyle, Robert Michael
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st/1st
- Condition New
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
- Date 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # 240203076
- ISBN 9780395828205 / 0395828201
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.74 x 1.08 in (21.54 x 14.58 x 2.74 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Monarch butterfly - Migration - West (U.S.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99012266
- Dewey Decimal Code 595.789
Summary
After chasing Bigfoot in his last book,Robert Pyle has shifted his attention to a smaller creature, but one that is just as remarkable. The monarch butterfly is our best-known and best-loved insect, and its annual migration over thousands of miles is an extraordinary natural phenomenon, though one that is poorly understood. Myths about the monarchs' travels abound, and to separate fact from fiction, Pyle set out late one summer to follow the wanderers south from their northernmost breeding grounds in British Columbia. He migrated with them down the Columbia, Snake, Bear, and Colorado Rivers, across the Bonneville Salt Flats, through Hell's Canyon and the Grand Canyon, to Mexico, then turned up the California coast to track another leg of their migration. CHASING MONARCHS is one of the most fascinating book ever written about butterflies. It's also a lively and compelling travel book about the American West, filled with unforgettable places and characters, both animal and human.
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IT WAS THE TIME of asters.