Bicycling with Butterflies
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Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award
Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration—a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts. Her panniers were recycled buckets.
In Bicycling with Butterflies, Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic ups and downs of the nearly nine-month odyssey. We’re beside her as she navigates unmapped roads in foreign countries, checks roadside milkweed for monarch eggs, and shares her passion with eager schoolchildren, skeptical bar patrons, and unimpressed border officials. We also meet some of the ardent monarch stewards who supported her efforts, from citizen scientists and researchers to farmers and high-rise city dwellers.
With both humor and humility, Dykman offers a compelling story, confirming the urgency of saving the threatened monarch migration—and the other threatened systems of nature that affect the survival of us all.
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“It's a lot to get through, and not much of it's pretty. Face it - humans are decimating our fellow species so fast that scientists who study such things consider the planet to be in a mass extinction event. Don't go into this book without that thought firmly in your mind.
Yeah, Sara's bicycle trip is boring at times, and her tone can be both accusatory and bored somehow at the same time. Her passion for her work and for monarchs is hard to discern in the midst of her descriptions of what she sees and experiences out on the road. In the end Monarchs are beautiful, and wondrous, and we should do all we can to save them and all native pollinators.
If you can stomach Sara running into some unsavory people, you'll get to enjoy her time spent with good folks doing vital work. If you can abide her roadkill descriptions (it's okay to be sad about it, okay? it's okay to feel something) you'll get wrapped up in her sometimes eye-level observations of, and conversations with, a gloriously majestic butterfly species. 🦋🦋🦋”Start a Book Club
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