Description
| Product ID: | 9781472992185 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | In Pursuit of Butterflies |
| Subtitle: | A Fifty-year Affair |
| Authors: | Author: Matthew Oates |
| Page Count: | 480 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Biography and non-fiction prose, Wildlife: butterflies, other insects and spiders: general interest, Prose: non-fiction, Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Wildlife |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-01-19 |
