Foreword Introduction 1 Starting out2 Laudator temporis acti3 Escape to the woods4 Rebellion5 Into the green A digression, into names 6 Desperately seeking Rima7 Walden8 The long hot summer of 19769 The legacy of 1976 Alice Holt Forest 10 Out of the seventies Winter 11 In and out of war: the early 1980s Noar Hill 12 The return of the wanderer13 Nineteen eighty-four and all that14 A time of discovery Autumn 15 High-blown years: the Great Storm and afterwards16 Paradise regained: the great summer of 1989 Spring 17 Spring perfected18 Moving on19 High adventures in the mid-1990s The New Forest 20 Summer of the Painted Lady21 Leaving the nineties22 Time out of time23 The Emperor's return24 Hairstreaks to the fore Some Cotswold places 25 Of Iris and Adonis26 A fall from grace Summer 27 A tale of two butterflies28 Adventures with caterpillars Savernake Forest 29 It rained . 30 Fifty years on Towards some meaning Afterword: On Marlpost RoadButterflies of the yearBibliographyList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIndex of butterfly speciesGeneral index.