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BUTTERFLY PEOPLE: AN AMERICAN ENCOUNTER WITH THE BEAUTY OF By W. R. Leach MINT!
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- Pantheon
- ISBN-10
- 0375422935
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780375422935
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375422935
ISBN-13
9780375422935
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111934861
Product Key Features
Book Title
Butterfly People : an American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Animals / Insects & Spiders, United States / 19th Century, Animals / Butterflies & Moths, Modern / General, History, Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
29.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-000389
Reviews
"If you have loved butterflies, you will love this book. If you haven't yet, you might begin here. William Leach's Butterfly People is a book about the pursuit of beauty: the story, like the subject, is irresistible." Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire "Who but another butterfly collector would want to read a book about America's pioneer butterfly collectors? Anyone interested in the development of American science in the context of evolving American values and culture. Leach, an eminent historian, presents vivid portraits of these fascinating and complex people, who did so much to advance the emerging Darwinian biology and biogeography of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. (Along the way, the reader learns a lot of biology painlessly, too.)" Arthur M. Shapiro, University of California, Davis, author of Field Guide to the Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions, "If you have loved butterflies, you will love this book. If you haven't yet, you might begin here. William Leach's Butterfly People is a book about the pursuit of beauty: the story, like the subject, is irresistible." Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire "In this unprecedented account, William Leach shows us how a handful of diligent students of the most beautiful and delicate insects allowed the science of evolution to celebrate beauty, not explain it away. Butterfly People is a comprehensive and marvelous book, revealing in great detail how naturalists become scientists through their love and experience of the creatures they study." David Rothenberg, author of Survival of the Beautiful and Bug Music "Who but another butterfly collector would want to read a book about America's pioneer butterfly collectors? Anyone interested in the development of American science in the context of evolving American values and culture. Leach, an eminent historian, presents vivid portraits of these fascinating and complex people, who did so much to advance the emerging Darwinian biology and biogeography of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. (Along the way, the reader learns a lot of biology painlessly, too.)" Arthur M. Shapiro, University of California, Davis, author of Field Guide to the Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions, "A mesmerizing and comprehensive history of butterfly collection in America . . . This is a deep dive into what, at first glance, seems an esoteric subject, but after further perusal reveals itself as an essential component of this nation's intellectual history. Fully informative on all things lepidoptera, this work embodies that 19th-century synthesis of science and art, while staying firmly grounded as a history of its namesake, as the Butterfly People become as rare as their most highly prized specimens." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Fascinating . . . This is an unusual, pinpointed slice of American life enlivened with fragments of correspondence and reproductions of plates from classic books of the period." -Kirkus "William Leach shows us that butterflies and the people who loved, studied, and profited from them were at the center of much that was new in American aesthetics, science, and ethics at a time of far-reaching social, cultural, and economic change. Not simply an absorbing history of America's nineteenth-century natural history collectors, Butterfly People is also a moving and enlightening elegy for American nature and for America itself as it crossed the threshold of industrialization." -Hugh Raffles, author of Insectopedia "In this unprecedented account, William Leach shows us how a handful of diligent students of the most beautiful and delicate insects allowed the science of evolution to celebrate beauty, not to explain it away. Butterfly People is a comprehensive and marvelous book, revealing in great detail how naturalists become scientists through their love and experience of the creatures they study." -David Rothenberg, author of Survival of the Beautiful " Who but another butterfly collector would want to read a book about America's pioneer butterfly collectors? Anyone interested in the development of American science in the context of evolving American values and culture. Leach, an eminent historian, presents vivid portraits of these fascinating and complex people, who did so much to advance the emerging Darwinian biology and biogeography of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Along the way, the reader learns a lot of biology painlessly, too.)" -Arthur M. Shapiro, University of California, Davis author of Field Guide to the Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions "If you have loved butterflies, you will love this book. If you haven't yet, you might begin here. Butterfly People is a book about the pursuit of beauty: the story, like the subject, is irresistible." -Robert D. Richardson Jr., author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
595.78/9
Synopsis
From one of the most highly regarded historians, an original and engrossing chronicle of 19th-century America's infatuation with butterflies and the naturalists who described and named countless new species and unveiled the mysteries of their existence., 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 elegantly illustrated history shows how Americans from all walks of life passionately pursued butterflies, and how through their discoveries and observations they transformed the character of natural history. Leach focuses on the correspondence and scientific writings of half a dozen pioneering lepidopterists who traveled across the country and throughout the world, collecting and studying unknown and exotic species. In a book as full of life as the subjects themselves and foregrounding a collecting culture now on the brink of vanishing, Leach reveals how the beauty of butterflies led Americans into a deeper understanding of the natural world. He shows, too, that the country's enthusiasm for butterflies occurred at the very moment that another form of beauty--the technological and industrial objects being displayed at world's fairs and commercial shows--was emerging, and that Americans' attraction to this new beauty would eventually, and at great cost, take precedence over nature in general and butterflies in particular.
LC Classification Number
QL549.L43 2012
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