‘Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond: An Illustrated Guide’ by Liam O’Brien. (Heyday)

I am not a person that leaves cities if I can possibly help it. I don’t often feel the need to be in nature, and when I do, I visit Lake Merritt or Golden Gate Park. The one time I was forced by a friend to drive through Yosemite National Park — altogether too remote for my liking — I have a recollection of rounding a corner and contemptuously uttering the phrase “Oh good. More trees .”

I mention this so you’ll understand what an enormous feat it is for anyone, anything — let alone a single book — to make me want to start hiking.

But that’s exactly what Liam O’Brien’s new illustrated guide, Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond has done. I cannot overstate what a miracle

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