Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World

With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence.A product of William Leach’s lifelong love of butterflies, this engaging and elegant...
By William R. Leach
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Pantheon; 1 edition (April 9, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375422935
ISBN-13: 978-0375422935
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.6 x 9.5 inches
Format: PDF ePub TXT book
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This work treats the 19th century and early 20th century American butterfly collectors and authors. Figures such as William Henry Edwards, who wrote a three volume treatise with lithographs done by Audubon's female colorists, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, who did a three volume treatise on Butterflies of ...
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