Author: Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527853
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
An account of a cross-country adventure chasing butterflies: “Armchair travelers who love a good yarn will find Pyle’s exuberance catching.” —Seattle Times 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 eight hundred 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. “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 of Of a Feather
Mariposa Road
Author: Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527853
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
An account of a cross-country adventure chasing butterflies: “Armchair travelers who love a good yarn will find Pyle’s exuberance catching.” —Seattle Times 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 eight hundred 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. “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 of Of a Feather
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527853
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
An account of a cross-country adventure chasing butterflies: “Armchair travelers who love a good yarn will find Pyle’s exuberance catching.” —Seattle Times 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 eight hundred 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. “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 of Of a Feather
Annual Report of the Secretary of War
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1928
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Yosemite, the Park and Its Resources: Historical narrative
Author: Linda W. Greene
Publisher:
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Category : Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Journal of the Assembly, Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1862
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Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1862
Book Description
Good Roads
Good Roads Magazine
L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads
A Report of Traffic on State Highways and County Roads in California, 1922
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Great Trans-continental Railroad Guide, Containing a Full and Authentic Description of Over Five Hundred Mountains, Lakes, Rivers, Sulfur, Soda and Hot Springs, Scenery, Watering Places, Summer Resorts ...
Author:
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Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description