An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair With A Singular Insect - Softcover

Russell, Sharman Apt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465071600 ISBN 13: 9780465071609

Publisher: Basic Books, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"Evocative...An Obsession with Butterflies offers a short but engrossing tour of their fascinating world."

From the Publisher:

The story of man's fascination with butterflies, as symbols, as objects of beauty, and of obsession. In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0465071600
• ISBN 13: 9780465071609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256