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Author:

Marren, Peter, author.

Title:

Rainbow dust : three centuries of butterfly delight : with a new preface / Peter Marren.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xx, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Butterflies.
Butterflies--Great Britain.
Butterflies--Social aspects.
Butterflies--Collection and preservation.
Butterflies.

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.

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.

ISBN:

022639588X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226395883 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)945693760

LCCN:

2016014269

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)