Four Wings and a Prayer Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly

Name: Four Wings and a Prayer Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
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ISBN: 9780375701948

ISBN-10: 037570194X

ISBN-13: 9780375701948

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sue Halpern

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Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains, and then make the return trip in the spring. In Four Wings and a Prayer, Sue Halpern sets off on an adventure to delve into the secrets behind this extraordinary phenomenon. She visits scientists and butterfly lovers across the country, offering a keenly observed portrait of the monarchs’ migration and of the people for whom they have become a glorious obsession. Combining science, memoir, and…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.93" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Sue Halpern is the author of "Migrations to Solitude". Her work has appeared in "Granta", "The New York Review of Books", "The New York Times", "Audubon", "Mother Jones", "Rolling Stone", & "Orion", among other publications. She lives in a small town in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.