Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage

Pyle, R.M.

ISBN 10: 030020387X / ISBN 13: 9780300203875

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014

About this Item

307, . . PB. Small crease to corner of front cover. Vg. The author followed the Monarch butterflies on their migration south from British Columbia along the Columbia, Snake, Bear and Colorado rivers, through Grand Canyon to Mexico, and then up the California coast on another leg of their migration. [9780300203875].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030020387X
• ISBN 13: 9780300203875
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • ENTOMOLOGY,LEPIDOPTERA

About this title

Synopsis

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 butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle, a naturalist with long experience in monarch conservation, the received wisdom about the butterflies’ long journey just didn’t make sense. In the autumn of 1996 he set out to uncover the facts, to pursue the tide of “cinnamon sailors” on their long, mysterious flight.
 
Chasing Monarchs chronicles Pyle’s 9,000-mile journey to discover firsthand the secrets of the monarchs’ annual migration. Part road trip, part outdoor adventure, and part natural history study, Pyle’s book overturns old theories and provides insights both large and small regarding monarch butterflies, their biology, and their spectacular migratory travels. Since the book’s first publication, its controversial conclusions have been fully confirmed, and monarchs are better understood than ever before. The Afterword for this volume includes not only updated information on the myriad threats to monarch butterflies, but also various efforts under way to ensure the future of the world’s most amazing butterfly migration. 

About the Author

Robert Michael Pyle is an award-winning author of eighteen books, including Wintergreen, for which he received the John Burroughs Medal. He is founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and has worked in every state and many countries as a butterfly ecologist, writer, speaker, and teacher. He lives along a tributary of the Lower Columbia River in southwest Washington.