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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.
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.
Matthew retired from his post as National Specialist on Nature with the National Trust in 2018, and dedicated his retirement to ensuring the future of his favourite butterfly. He writes regularly for The Times Nature Notebook column and in magazines, and lives on the Gloucestershire-Wiltshire border.
1 Starting out
2 Laudator temporis acti
3 Escape to the woods
4 Rebellion
5 Into the green
A digression, into names
6 Desperately seeking Rima
7 Walden
8 The long hot summer of 1976
9 The legacy of 1976
Alice Holt Forest
10 Out of the seventies
Winter
11 In and out of war: the early 1980s
Noar Hill
12 The return of the wanderer
13 Nineteen eighty-four and all that
14 A time of discovery
Autumn
15 High-blown years: the Great Storm and afterwards
16 Paradise regained: the great summer of 1989
Spring
17 Spring perfected
18 Moving on
19 High adventures in the mid-1990s
The New Forest
20 Summer of the Painted Lady
21 Leaving the nineties
22 Time out of time
23 The Emperor's return
24 Hairstreaks to the fore
Some Cotswold places
25 Of Iris and Adonis
26 A fall from grace
Summer
27 A tale of two butterflies
28 Adventures with caterpillars
Savernake Forest
29 It rained.
30 Fifty years on
Towards some meaning
Afterword: On Marlpost Road
Butterflies of the year
Bibliography
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Index of butterfly species
General index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781472992185 |
| ISBN-10: | 1472992180 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Oates, Matthew |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Maße: | 194 x 127 x 32 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Matthew Oates |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 19.01.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,404 kg |
Matthew retired from his post as National Specialist on Nature with the National Trust in 2018, and dedicated his retirement to ensuring the future of his favourite butterfly. He writes regularly for The Times Nature Notebook column and in magazines, and lives on the Gloucestershire-Wiltshire border.
1 Starting out
2 Laudator temporis acti
3 Escape to the woods
4 Rebellion
5 Into the green
A digression, into names
6 Desperately seeking Rima
7 Walden
8 The long hot summer of 1976
9 The legacy of 1976
Alice Holt Forest
10 Out of the seventies
Winter
11 In and out of war: the early 1980s
Noar Hill
12 The return of the wanderer
13 Nineteen eighty-four and all that
14 A time of discovery
Autumn
15 High-blown years: the Great Storm and afterwards
16 Paradise regained: the great summer of 1989
Spring
17 Spring perfected
18 Moving on
19 High adventures in the mid-1990s
The New Forest
20 Summer of the Painted Lady
21 Leaving the nineties
22 Time out of time
23 The Emperor's return
24 Hairstreaks to the fore
Some Cotswold places
25 Of Iris and Adonis
26 A fall from grace
Summer
27 A tale of two butterflies
28 Adventures with caterpillars
Savernake Forest
29 It rained.
30 Fifty years on
Towards some meaning
Afterword: On Marlpost Road
Butterflies of the year
Bibliography
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Index of butterfly species
General index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781472992185 |
| ISBN-10: | 1472992180 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Oates, Matthew |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Maße: | 194 x 127 x 32 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Matthew Oates |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 19.01.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,404 kg |
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