Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
Peter Marren
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
Peter Marren
A uniquely personal book about butterflies and about the people who love them - which, surely, is most of us
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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