Peter Laufer is the author or coauthor of more than ten books, including Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq and Iron Curtain Rising: A Personal Journey through the Changing Landscape of Eastern Europe. An award-winning journalist and a noted documentary filmmaker, he hosts “The Peter Laufer Show” Sundays on the San Francisco Clear Channel radio station Green 960.
Introduction: A Relentless Quest for Tranquility | p. ix |
Off to Nicaragua and an Introduction to Lepidoptera | p. 1 |
With the Purists Where Butterflies Fly Free | p. 21 |
My Successful Commercial Butterfly Release | p. 40 |
Diapause | p. 64 |
The Flight and Plight of the Monarch | p. 77 |
In Pursuit of the World's Most Wanted Butterfly Smuggler | p. 103 |
Death-defying, Globe-trotting Butterfly Hunting | p. 128 |
Butterflies versus National Security | p. 155 |
The Butterfly as Art | p. 182 |
Creation versus Evolution | p. 204 |
Butterfly Resurrection | p. 228 |
Epilogue | p. 253 |
Acknowledgments | p. 256 |
Endnotes | p. 259 |
Index | p. 263 |
About the Author | p. 272 |
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