An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect

by SharmanAptRussell (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $20.14

  Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary collectors and dedicated scientists who have obsessively catalogueued new species of Lepidoptera. A luminous journey through an exotic world of passion and strange beauty, this is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever experienced the enchantment of butterflies.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $4.38

  This study of butterfies through their life cycles helps reveal the logic behind our fascination with butterflies. It explains the passion of legendary collectors such as the tragic Eleanor Glanville and brilliant Henry Bates and takes us inside some of the most prestigious natural history museums.