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Rainbow dust : three centuries of butterfly delight, with a new preface
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Title
Rainbow dust : three centuries of butterfly delight, with a new preface / Peter Marren.
ISBN
9780226395883
022639588X
9780226395913
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
xx, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Originally published with subtitle: Three centuries of delight in British butterflies. London : Square Peg, 2015. With new preface.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 16, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-284) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The painted lady
1. Meeting the butterfly
2. Chasing the clouded yellow
3. Graylings : the birth of a passion
4. Gatekeepers : collecting with Jean Froissart, John Fowles and Vladimir Nabokov
5. Lady Glanville's fritillary
6. At the sign of the chequered skipper
7. The golden hog or the wonderful names of butterflies
8. Seeing red : the admiral
9. Fire and brimstone : butterflies and the imagination
10. Silver washes and pearl borders : painting butterflies
11. Endgame : the large blue and other dropouts
12. The wall or how to protect a butterfly
13. Envoi: Aurora or the daughter of dawn
Appendix: British butterflies.
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