First published in London by Howard Miifflin Harcourt Publishers in 2010.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Ray One Cabbages and Kings -- 1.Something Nice in the Woodshed -- 2.A Big Blow -- 3.Talk to Me of Mendocino -- 4.Not Too Mediocre Monarchs -- 5.Bixby Creek and Beyond -- 6.Ventura Highway -- 7.Protecting Our Borders -- 8.The Crows of Capistrano -- Ray Two East To Atala -- 1.Stuck in Lodi Again -- 2.Life Valley -- 3.Oil Caps and Crawdads -- 4.On to Sanibel -- 5.The Blue Frog -- 6.The Crooked Way to Kissimmee -- 7.Easter with Andy -- 8.Beach Lady Day -- 9.Lost and Found -- 10.April Fool -- 11.Travels in Georgia -- 12.Going to Graceland -- 13.Delta Blues -- 14.High Points and Low -- 15.Descent into Hope -- 16.From Hope to Hell -- 17.Twenty-six Miles, Take One -- 18.California Blues -- 19.Double Scotch on the Rocks -- Ray Three Hunting For Hairstreaks I -- 1.obscura -- 2.hesseli -- 3.perplexa -- Ray Four Hunting for Hairstreaks II -- 1.hermes -- 2.thomei -- 3.avalona, Take Two -- Ray Five North To Alaska -- 1.Murphy Dome Day -- 2.Eagle Summit -- Contents note continued: 3.Over Atigun -- 4.Down the Dalton -- 5.Arctic Solstice -- Ray Six Land O' Lincoln (Wending With Wiker) -- 1.Baltimore at Last -- 2.Frit City -- 3.Garden Party of the Goddesses -- Ray Seven Yosemite Run -- 1.Leona -- 2.Fandango -- 3.Tioga -- 4.McCloud -- Ray Eight Colorado Kid -- 1.UP to Uncompahgre -- 2.Gothic Tale -- 3.Deep Purple -- Ray Nine Close To Home -- 1.Olympica Arctica -- 2.Dumpster Dive -- 3.Astarte Arising -- 4.Over the Mistletoe -- Ray Ten To Kingdom Come And Back -- 1.Lochsa Road -- 2.Christina -- 3.Nokomis -- 4.Down East for Coppers -- 5.Dukes Up! -- 6.Oh, Oh, Diana -- 7.Majestic, Lovely, and Beauty -- 8.Wake Up, Little Susie -- 9.A Pink Sphinx -- 10.The Ghost of KB -- Ray Eleven East Of The Pecos -- 1.Great White -- 2.Carole, How Could You? -- 3.Havasu-Gila -- 4.Have Some Madera, Minerva? -- 5.Terloot and Geronimo -- 6.The Red Satyr -- 7.Floyd, June, and Ben -- 8.By-Catch -- 9.Carolina in the Diner -- 10.On a Mission -- Contents note continued: 11.The Bee Caves -- 12.Rio Grande Sur -- 13.Bog Hopper -- Ray Twelve Back And Forth -- 1.Tejas Thanksgiving -- 2.Laguna in Winter -- Ray Thirteen Kauai Blues -- 1.Kahili -- 2.Koke'e -- 3.Kailua -- Ray Fourteen Keys To The Highway -- 1.More Purple -- 2.Miami Blue -- 3.The Last Butterfly -- 4.Home.
Summary:
With his lifelong fascination with butterflies, America's best-known lepidopterist set himself an irresistible challenge: how many of the 800 species of butterflies known in the US could he track down in a single year? This title is a part road-trip tale, part travelogue, and part memoir of people and species the author encountered along the way.
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