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A pocket-sized guide to every butterfly you're ever likely to see in the UK. Beautifully illustrated and packed with surprising and delightful facts. Supported by the National Trust, who look after many of the UK's butterfly hotspots. This beautifully illustrated little guide tells you everything you need to know about Britain's butterflies. Whether you're a beginner or an enthusiast, you will want to spot all of these winged wonders. All five families of British butterflies are featured - Skippers; Whites and Yellows; Browns, Fritillaries and Aristocrats; Metalmarks; Coppers, Hairstreaks and Blues - as well as five day-flying moths that are just as colourful and striking as their butterfly cousins. There are detailed descriptions and lifelike illustrations to help budding butterfliers or seasoned spotters identify these 'jewels of nature's crown'. This handy book, compiled by passionate butterfly spotter and naturalist Matthew Oates, is the perfect companion for anyone interested in exploring the wonderful world of British butterflies.

Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poetry, he has devoted himself to these exalted to their observation, to singing their praises, and to ensuring their survival. Based on fifty years of detailed diaries, In Pursuit of Butterflies is the chronicle of this life.Oates leads the reader through a lifetime of butterflying, across the mountain tops, the peat bogs, sea cliffs, meadows, heaths, the chalk downs and great forests of the British Isles. Full of humour, zeal, digression, expertise and anecdote, this book provides a profound encounter with one of our great butterfly lovers, and with a half-century of butterflies in Britain.

Matthew Oates has spent 50 years trying to unravel the Purple Emperor's secrets. Many mysteries remain unsolved, but enough are revealed in this book to enable experts and non-experts alike to go out in search of a butterfly that thrills and enthrals all who encounter it. This is a good-news species, at a time of massive wildlife decline. And this is a joyous - often rapturous - account, written in plain English, as a labour of love.