Foreword Introduction 1 Starting out 2 Laudator temporis acti 3 Escape to the woods 4 Rebellion 5 Into the green A digression, into names 6 Desperately seeking Rima 7 Walden 8 The long hot summer of 1976 9 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 wanderer 13 Nineteen eighty-four and all that 14 A time of discovery Autumn 15 High-blown years: the Great Storm and afterwards 16 Paradise regained: the great summer of 1989 Spring 17 Spring perfected 18 Moving on 19 High adventures in the mid-1990s The New Forest 20 Summer of the Painted Lady 21 Leaving the nineties 22 Time out of time 23 The Emperor's return 24 Hairstreaks to the fore Some Cotswold places 25 Of Iris and Adonis 26 A fall from grace Summer 27 A tale of two butterflies 28 Adventures with caterpillars Savernake Forest 29 It rained. 30 Fifty years on Towards some meaning Afterword: On Marlpost Road Butterflies of the year Bibliography List of illustrations Acknowledgements Index of butterfly species General index.