Mariposa Road:The First Butterfly Big Year
by Robert Michael Pyle
Giving up on this, a little more than halfway through. It's a 558 page book describing a day-by-day journal of the author's yearlong travels to see all the butterfly species in the United States. Well, no--not all the species. There are close to 800 identified species in the country, and he set himself a goal to see 500 of them.
He came close but I won't say how close for fear of spoiling it for you. It's a good book and I recommend it highly, but after nearly three hundred pages I began to find that I picked it up with increasing reluctance and put it down with immense relief. It was good, but just too much for me.
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