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About this book
An account of a cross-country adventure chasing butterflies: "Armchair travelers who love a good yarn will find Pyle's exuberance catching." ā
Seattle Times
Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history,Ā Mariposa RoadĀ 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.Ā Like Pyle's classicĀ Chasing Monarchs, Mariposa RoadĀ 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.Ā 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,Ā and its fading fauna are wholly original. At turns whimsical, witty, informative, and inspirational,Ā Mariposa RoadĀ is anĀ extraordinary journey of discovery thatĀ leads the reader ever farther into butterfly country andĀ deeper into the heart of the naturalist.
"What Roger Tory Peterson was for birds, Bob Pyle is for butterfliesĀ .Ā .Ā . 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." āScott Weidensaul, author of Ā Of a Feather
Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history,Ā Mariposa RoadĀ 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.Ā Like Pyle's classicĀ Chasing Monarchs, Mariposa RoadĀ 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.Ā 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,Ā and its fading fauna are wholly original. At turns whimsical, witty, informative, and inspirational,Ā Mariposa RoadĀ is anĀ extraordinary journey of discovery thatĀ leads the reader ever farther into butterfly country andĀ deeper into the heart of the naturalist.
"What Roger Tory Peterson was for birds, Bob Pyle is for butterfliesĀ .Ā .Ā . 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." āScott Weidensaul, author of Ā Of a Feather
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Route Map for Mariposa Road
- Why a Butterfly Big Year?
- Cabbages and Kings
- Something Nice in the Woodshed
- A Big Blow
- Talk to Me of Mendocino
- Not Too Mediocre Monarchs
- Bixby Creek and Beyond
- Ventura Highway
- Protecting Our Borders
- The Crows of Capistrano
- East to Atala
- Stuck in Lodi Again
- Life Valley
- Oil Caps and Crawdads
- On to Sanibel
- The Blue Frog
- The Crooked Way to Kissimmee
- Easter with Andy
- Beach Lady Day
- Lost and Found
- April Fool
- Travels in Georgia
- Going to Graceland
- Delta Blues
- High Points and Low
- Descent into Hope
- From Hope to Hell
- Twenty-six Miles, Take One
- California Blues
- Double Scotch on the Rocks
- Hunting for Hairstreaks I
- obscura
- hesseli
- perplexa
- Hunting for Hairstreaks II
- hermes
- thornei
- avalona, Take Two
- North to Alaska
- Murphy Dome Day
- Eagle Summit
- Over Atigun
- Down the Dalton
- Arctic Solstice
- Land oā Lincoln (Wending with Wiker)
- Baltimore at Last
- Frit City
- Garden Party of the Goddesses
- Yosemite Run
- Leona
- Fandango
- Tioga
- MCCloud
- Colorado Kid
- Up to Uncompahgre
- Gothic Tale
- Deep Purple
- Close to Home
- Olympica Arctica
- Dumpster Dive
- Astarte Arising
- Over the Mistletoe
- To Kingdom Come and Back
- Lochsa Road
- Christina
- Nokomis
- Down East for Coppers
- Dukes Up!
- Oh, Oh, Diana
- Majestic, Lovely, and Beauty
- Wake Up, Little Susie
- A Pink Sphinx
- The Ghost of KB
- East of the Pecos
- Great White
- Carole, How Could You?
- Havasu-Gila
- Have Some Madera, Minerva?
- Terloot and Geronimo
- The Red Satyr
- Floyd, June, and Ben
- By-catch
- Carolina in the Diner
- On a Mission
- The Bee Caves
- Rio Grande Sur
- Bog Hopper
- Back and Forth
- Tejas Thanksgiving
- Laguna in Winter
- Kauai Blues
- Kahili
- Kokeāe
- Kailua
- Keys to the Highway
- More Purple
- Miami Blue
- The Last Butterfly
- Home
- Coulda Done Better, But I Donāt Mind
- Statistics and Species Tally
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH