Collins Butterfly Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe - Softcover

Tolman, Tom

 
9780007279777: Collins Butterfly Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0007279779 ISBN 13: 9780007279777
Verlag: Collins, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This classic guide to the butterflies of Britain and northern Europe enters its third edition as part of the authoritative Collins Guide series.

This comprehensive guide to the butterflies of Britain and Europe features over 400 species, depicting both male and female insects. Species descriptions include details on taxonomic nomenclature, distribution, flight period, variation, habitat, behaviour and life cycle. Subspecies are included where there is significant variation, and distribution maps accompany each widespread species.

Illustrated by Richard Lewington, the world's leading butterfly illustrator, this is an ideal field guide for travelling naturalists and butterfly enthusiasts alike and is an essential addition to every nature lover's bookshelves.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Tom Tolman developed an interest in botany and natural history in the 1970s and has since developed a passion for butterflies. He has done extensive research on their habitats and has spent between 4-6 months each year camping in remote mountainous locations for the sole purpose of acquiring new information. He has an extensive collection of butterfly photographs from all over Europe, including many species whose photographs have never been published.



Richard Lewington is one of the world's leading natural history illustrators, specialising in insects and other invertebrates. He has illustrated numerous books, including ‘How to Identify Butterflies’, ‘Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland’ and ‘Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland’. He lives in Oxfordshire, where he works as a freelance illustrator and regularly leads wildlife tours to various parts of Europe.

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Verlag
Collins
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0007279779
ISBN 13 
9780007279777
Einband
Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Lewington Richard
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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