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Patrick Barkham
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of our Emperors and Admirals
Winter Weekend 2010,
The extraordinary physical beauty and amusingly diverse character of our 59 species of butterfly. He witnesses a swarming invasion of Painted Ladies, experiences the curse of the Purple Emperor, makes a euphoric sighting of an exceedingly rare migrant and as summer draws to a close, suffers from butterfly burnout.
