In Pursuit of Butterflies A Fifty-Year Affair

The butterflies of Britain, in the words of one of their greatest champions Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poetry, he has devoted himself to these exalted creatures: to their observation, to singing their praises, and to ensuring their survival. Based on fifty years of detailed diaries, In Pursuit of Butterflies is the chronicle of this life. Oates leads the reader through a lifetime of butterflying, across the mountain tops, the peat bogs, sea cliffs, meadows, heaths, the chalk downs and great forests of the British Isles. Full of humour, zeal, digression, expertise and anecdote, this book provides a profound encounter with one of our great butterfly lovers, and with a half-century of butterflies in Britain.

ISBN:	9781472992185
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Imprint:	Bloomsbury Wildlife
Published date:	19 Jan 2021
DEWEY:	595.789092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	480
Weight:	400g
Height:	128mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	33mm

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