| Amazing Monarch: The Secret Wintering Grounds of an Endangered Butterfly Contributor(s): Turley, Windle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0989220109 ISBN-13: 9780989220101 Publisher: Turley Gallery OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals - Nature | Animals - Butterflies & Moths - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature |
| Dewey: 595.789 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 11.8" W x 15.6" (3.70 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Author and photographer Windle Turley chronicles the lifecycle of the monarch butterfly. Replete with page after page of full-colour photographs, the book shows the monarchs rarely captured wintering grounds. The contrast of the orange and black pops off the page as the reader goes on a visual tour in the high mountains of Mexico. The multifaceted work also contains poems and quotations focusing on the beauty of these tiny animals that weigh only .02 of an ounce. This book tracks the monarchs migration and interesting life span. The handful of roosting sites, located at an altitude of about 10,000 feet and only a few acres in size, may each contain 20 to 30 million monarchs. Granted almost unprecedented access by Mexican wildlife officials, Turley photographed the insects in their natural habitats at their sanctuaries in Los Saucos and at the Sierra Chincua Sanctuary -- areas unknown to outsiders until 1975. |