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An edition of Rainbow dust (2015)

Rainbow dust

three centuries of butterfly delight

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English
Pages
308

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Cover of: Rainbow Dust
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
2016, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Rainbow Dust
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight
2016, University of Chicago Press
in English
Cover of: Rainbow dust
Rainbow dust: three centuries of butterfly delight
2016, University of Chicago Press
in English
Cover of: Rainbow dust
Rainbow dust: three centuries of delight in British butterflies
2015, Square Peg
in English

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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.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
595.78/9
Library of Congress
QL544 .M37 2016, QL542 .M367 2016, QL542.M367 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 308 pages
Number of pages
308

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27223034M
ISBN 10
022639588X
ISBN 13
9780226395883
LCCN
2016014269
OCLC/WorldCat
945693760
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01MCQHMRG

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OL20043002W

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