The Butterfly Season

Lea Korsgaard has written an important and wonderful book about the hunt for Denmark’s 64 different butterflies … Read these 314 pages and your view of the world will never be the same * Five Star review in Jyllands-Posten * One of those books that makes the world richer -- Kristeligt Dagblad Detailed, sensory, precise ... Korsgaard has a childlike enthusiasm, and it is contagious. When she describes her hunt for butterflies, it’s almost like reading a crime novel (it’s strangely exciting to see if she finds them!). But it’s also like reading a love story (it’s strangely moving when she does!) * Politiken * Lea Korsgaard’s tantalizing butterfly annals turn disciplined insect hunting into a meditation on existence … The Butterfly Season is continuously illustrated with the author’s own fine butterfly drawings, is an excellent and extremely well-composed book, first-class literary journalism * Weekendavisen * With her book about butterflies, Lea Korsgaard re-enchants the world. It’s a book about chasing butterflies, but it’s just as much a book about the meaning of life – and a wonderful defence of an endangered natural world * Information * You don’t have to share her view of nature and the world in detail to be hooked. Her good writing is the kind that happens when the beautifully nerdy unfolds. It’s about passion, which in a way is its own purpose, but which always, when managed with, well, passion, becomes so much more. Lea Korsgaard’s account of her inner and outer journeys becomes one of those books that makes the world a little bigger. Even when it’s about the smallest of things * Berlingske * The book manages to combine nature writing, personal development, and existential reflection in a way that speaks to both the head and the heart. It invites the reader to see the world—and the butterflies in it—with renewed awareness and wonder * The Danish Libraries *