How a Gram Crosses a Continent
Four Journeys into How a Butterfly Survives the CrossingBy Rowan Cassidy
Length47m
About this audiobook
How does something lighter than a raindrop cross a continent? In four vivid, audio-crafted journeys, this second volume follows the monarch's astonishing crossing — the half-gram glider that rides the sun's rising air instead of fighting it, the caterpillar that performs surgery on a poison plant and steals its venom for armor, the slow autumn feeding that fuels a body for a winter it has never felt, and the moment a butterfly arrives, for the first time, at a mountain it has somehow always been coming home to. Stories of flight, defense, survival, and a homecoming to a place never seen.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 20, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1How a Gram Crosses a Continent
2The Poison in the Milk
3Drinking for the Long Cold
4Arriving Where No One Has Been
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