The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me about Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life by Korsgaard, Lea
The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me about Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life by Korsgaard, Lea

The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me about Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life

Lea Korsgaard's number-one international bestseller tells the story of the year she spent tracking every species of...
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Author: Lea Korsgaard
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The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me about Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life by Korsgaard, Lea

The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me about Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life

$38.40
The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me about Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life by Korsgaard, Lea

The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me about Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life

$38.40
Author: Lea Korsgaard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Lea Korsgaard's number-one international bestseller tells the story of the year she spent tracking every species of butterfly in her native Denmark. Suffused with beauty and wonder, The Butterfly Season is a love letter to the natural world and an unforgettable reflection on the precious and fleeting nature of life itself.

"The Butterfly Season is an inspiring love letter to the magic of the natural world, in all its beauty and complexity and joy--an unforgettable reminder that wonder awakens the heart." --Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Combining nature writing, philosophy, myth, science, and sixty-four beautiful hand-drawn illusrtations, The Butterfly Season is a luminous account of one woman's quest to see all sixty-four species of butterflies native to Denmark in a single year. Part field diary, part mythological tapestry, part existential reflection, Lea Korsgaard's journey unfolds across seasons and geographies, through meadows, marshes, and ancient coastal lands, as she discovers the mysteries and miracles of the natural world.

On the first day of the year, Korsgaard sat at her desk, making a list. It was a typically cold, quiet January day, and the possibility of the new year--of new discoveries and new challenges--reawakened an old dream of hers: to see every Danish butterfly species in one year. At first, the goal felt impossible--Korsgaard knew almost nothing about butterflies--but she persevered, creating a color-coded tracking system that mapped butterfly regions and flight times with meticulous care. As the project developed, what was at first a simple exercise in discovery became an intimate reckoning with transformation and rebirth, the butterfly's fleeting existence knitting together beginnings, endings, and the life made in between.

The Butterfly Season is perfect for readers of Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton and The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan.

Author: Lea Korsgaard
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9798217208869


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 07/13/2026
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2026
Library Journal 08/01/2026 pg. 93

About the Author
LEA KORSGAARD is an award-winning journalist and author. She is the cofounder and editor in chief of the digital newspaper, Zetland, and chair of the board of the Danish School of Media and Journalism. The Butterfly Season was first published in 2025 in Denmark, where it became a number one-bestseller.
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