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Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
2016, Penguin Random House
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Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight
2016, University of Chicago Press
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Rainbow dust: three centuries of butterfly delight
2016, University of Chicago Press
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Rainbow dust: three centuries of delight in British butterflies
2015, Square Peg
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Book Details
Table of 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.
Edition Notes
Originally published with subtitle: Three centuries of delight in British butterflies. London : Square Peg, 2015. With new preface.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.

