Four Wings and a Prayer by Sue Halpern

Four Wings and a Prayer by Sue Halpern

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 travel writing, Four Wings and a Prayer is an absorbing travelogue and a fascinating meditation on a profound mystery of the natural world.

Sue Halpern is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and the author of Four Wings and a Prayer, Migrations to Solitude, and two works of fiction.

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ISBN 13	9780375701948
ISBN 10	037570194X
Title	Four Wings and a Prayer
Author	Sue Halpern
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2002-07-09
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Winner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.
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