Rainbow Dust Three Centuries Of Butterfly Delight By PeterMarten HardCover NWOTS
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Rainbow Dust
By Peter Marren
Hard Cover
Three Centuries Of Butterfly Delight
With A New Preface
Use to be a library book discarded
Does have some minor wear and tear left over sticker marks stain piece of the front cover missing but other than that in ExcellentCondition
What this book is about:
Like fluttering shards of stained glass, butterflies possess a unique power to pierce and stir the human soul. Indeed, the ancient Greeks explicitly equated the two in a single word, psyche, so that from early times butterflies were not only a form of life, but also an idea. Profound and deeply personal, written with both wisdom and wit, Peter Marren’s Rainbow Dust explores this idea of butterflies the why behind the mysterious power of these insects we do not flee, but rather chase.
At the age of five, Marren had his “ Nabokov moment,” catching his first butterfly and feeling the dust of its colored scales between his fingers. It was a moment that would launch a lifetime’s fascination rivaling that of the famed novelist a fascination that put both in good company. From the butterfly collecting and rearing craze that consumed North America and Europe for more than two hundred years ( a hobby that in some cases bordered on madness) , to the potent allure of butterfly iconography in contemporary advertisements and their use in spearheading calls to conserve and restore habitats Marren unveils the many ways in which butterflies inspire us as objects of beauty
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