Robert Michael Pyle
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
An account of a cross-country adventure chasing butterflies: "Armchair travelers who love a good yarn will find Pyle's exuberance catching." —Seattle Times
Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history, Mariposa Road tracks Bob Pyle's journey across the United States as he races against the calendar in his search for as many of the eight hundred American butterflies...
Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history, Mariposa Road tracks Bob Pyle's journey across the United States as he races against the calendar in his search for as many of the eight hundred American butterflies...
Author
Description
The inspiration for the film The Dark Divide starring David Cross and Debra Messing, one of America's most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills in search of Bigfoot-and finds the wildness within ourselves.
Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Yale-trained ecologist Dr. Robert Pyle treks into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark Divide near Mount St. Helens, where he discovers both a giant fossil...
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
420 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm.
Description
The Butterflies of Cascadia covers every species and subspecies found in the Pacific Northwest, from southern B. C. to northern California and Nevada, from western Idaho to the Pacific, and all of Washington and Oregon. Virtually every species is illustrated by brilliant photographs from life. Topics covered in various sections include history, lore, etymologies, esthetic encounters, ecology, conservation, study and nomenclature.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A rich and rollicking first novel from one of America's most beloved and widely acclaimed nature writers, Robert Michael Pyle In Magdalena Mountain , Robert Michael Pyle's first and long-awaited novel, the award-winning naturalist proves he is as at home in an imagined landscape as he is in the natural one. At the center of this story of majesty and high mountain magic are three Magdalenas--Mary, a woman whose uncertain journey opens the book; Magdalena...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
461 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 22 cm.
Description
Easy to use and beautifully illustrated with more than 600 color photographs and nearly 200 maps, Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest is a must-have for nature lovers in Washington, Oregon, western Idaho, northern California, and British Columbia. The profiles include preferred common name for both genus and species, type locality, conservation status, the look and distinguishing traits of each butterfly, the preferred foodplants and nectar plants,...
12) The dark divide
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The dark divide is based on the true story of renowned butterfly expert Dr. Robert Pyle's perilous 1995 journey across one of America's largest undeveloped wildlands. At the urging of his dying wife Thea, the shy author finds himself in over his head on an epic, life-changing expedition through Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest in search of new species of butterflies."--Container.
13) Big Fur
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Description
If World Champion taxidermist Ken Walker can't find Bigfoot, he'll make her. And fall in love. And sing about it.