Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies - Softcover

Marren, Peter

 
9781784703189: Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784703184 ISBN 13: 9781784703189
Verlag: Vintage, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike.

Beginning with the author's own experience of hunting and rearing butterflies as a boy, Peter Marren considers the special place of the butterfly in art, literature, advertising and science, and, latterly, our attempts to conserve them.

Rainbow Dust takes in the controversy over collecting, the women who studied them and the curious details that lead to butterflies being feared as well as loved. This is a celebration of butterflies; one shot through with a sense of wonder but also of sorrow at what we are losing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Marren is a wildlife writer, journalist and authority on invertebrate folklore and names. His books include the bestselling Rainbow Dust; The New Naturalists, which won the Society for the History of Natural History’s Thackray Medal; and Britain’s Rare Flowers, which won the Botanical Society of the British Isles’ Presidents’ Award. Peter also won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his work on Bugs Britannica.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784703184
ISBN 13 
9781784703189
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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