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pp.xv., 414 with b/w. photos. Large 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. Ken Spencer has travelled, collected, studied, published, and attended conferences, mixing effortlessly with numerous entomologists and fellow Agromyzid specialists at all levels, no matter what their nationality, and pursuing the study of his chosen group with a single-minded dedication verging on the obsessive. How this was achieved, together with his youthful background as a linguist, his service in military intelligence during the war and after, and his career as an international businessman, is the subject of this absorbing and fascinating book.