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Butterflies - Hardcover

Badger, David

 
9780760326343: Butterflies
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0760326347 ISBN 13: 9780760326343
Verlag: Motorbooks International, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

The great beauties of the insect world, butterflies have inspired poets, gardeners, scientists, and engineers with their vibrant colors, dizzying patterns, iridescent wing scales, compound eyes, and amazing metamorphosis from crawling caterpillars to winged wonders. Featuring more than 140 striking color photographs by Brian Kenney and enlightening text by David Badger, this book presents a natural and cultural history of these ephemeral creatures from the order Lepidoptera. Butterflies highlights 60 of the most fascinating butterfly species from around the world, including painted ladies, variable crackers, long-tailed skippers, Southern dogfaces, American snouts, Guatemalan satyrs, ruddy daggerwings, and shoemakers.
Badger also offers an introduction to physical characteristics and behavior, butterfly-human relations, conservation, and the art of photographing butterflies. Sprinkled throughout the book are excerpts from literature throughout the ages, adding a nice touch of elegance to the stunning photo collection. Gorgeously illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose, this book is a must for butterfly enthusiasts—and for anyone else who cherishes the splendors of the natural world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Badger is a professor of journalism at Middle Tennessee State University and the author of Frogs, Snakes, Frogs: WorldLife Library and Lizards. He is the co-author of Newscraft, a contributor to Free Expression and the American Public, and the editor of more than a dozen books by John Netherton. He lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife, Sherry, and son, Jeff.

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Butterflies presents a natural and cultural history of the great beauties of the insect world. Featuring 140 striking color photographs by Brian Kenney and informative text by David Badger, the book highlights 60 of the most fascinating butterfly species from around the world, including painted ladies, variable crackers, long-tailed skippers, Southern dogfaces, American snouts, Guatemalan satyrs, ruddy daggerwings, and shoemakers. Badger also offers an introduction to physical characteristics and behavior, butterfly-human relations, conservation, and the art of photographing butterflies.

 

Gorgeously illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose, this guide is a must for butterfly enthusiasts—and for anyone else who cherishes the splendors of the natural world.

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Verlag
Motorbooks International
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0760326347
ISBN 13 
9780760326343
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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