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Monday, November 8, 2010

Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year

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In birding jargon, is a great year one year, which aims to see as many birds as you can. Naturalist and writer Robert M. Pyle, a butterfly lover way back, got the idea to a great year for butterflies, and in 2008 it did. Mariposa Road is the story of the Great Year Pyle butterfly, in which he travels the United States (including Hawaii and Alaska) to see with the goal of at least 500 different species of butterflies. Along the way you aresupported by many fans to support its objectives and any number of citizens whose many courtesies he regularly documents. If he can not reach the magic 500? You must read the book to find out, but when you touch it, you're missing the point - Pyle's real goal is to celebrate the love of nature and butterflies: their own, and in general.

This book recalls Pyle classic picaresque novel Chasing Re: Migrating with the Butterflies of passage, in which he wrote the Pylehis adventures back edge of the monarch butterfly's annual migration from north to south. There, as here, his gentle observations about people and places along the way and his low-budget travel (usually with the same decades-old Honda Civic) blend with enthusiastic descriptions of his time in the industry and beautiful insects located there. But with more than 500 pages Mariposa Road King Chasing is much longer. While both books are basically chronological accounts of different events,Happen until the end point is reached, but it seemed nice and Chasing Monarchs gradually decreased Mariposa Road goes on, the same charming style begins to appear, the book cumbersome. My proposal is therefore not to miss the book - would be a shame, Pyle is a quiet, poetic language, the observation of intelligent escape, and his infectious enthusiasm - but to break a bit '. Pyle divides the book into "radiation" - sections on various expeditions throughout the year which is big -10 to 50 pages long. I think I liked it better if this book, I followed his example and had read a "beam" in a short time, among other books.

Of course I'm not really the target of this book, because I'm not a fan of butterfly and read Pyle's work, especially for the travelogue aspect. My joy in his work - and I've never seen a book, Pyle was found not worth reading, the man is a wonderful writer - probably triple or quadruple, if I have aNaturalist or researcher butterfly. Those of you who read his work more for the trip report and I hope you know who you are absorbed like to read this book, as Pyle was unclear how he lived, and probably able to read it straight and love it. For the rest of us, time spent with Pyle's worth the time, but I recommend his book in a nutshell.

Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year Feature

ISBN13: 9780618945399
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Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year Overview

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 800 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.