Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies

Author(s): Peter Marren

Natural History

Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. Beginning with the author's own experience of hunting and rearing butterflies as a boy, Peter Marren considers the special place of the butterfly in art, literature, advertising and science, and, latterly, our attempts to conserve them. Rainbow Dust takes in the controversy over collecting, the women who studied them and the curious details that lead to butterflies being feared as well as loved. This is a celebration of butterflies; one shot through with a sense of wonder but also of sorrow at what we are losing.

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A uniquely personal book about butterflies and about the people who love them - which, surely, is most of us

Peter Marren is a wildlife writer, journalist and authority on invertebrate folklore and names. His books include The New Naturalists, which won the Society for the History of Natural History's Thackray Medal, Britain's Rare Flowers, which won the Botanical Society of the British Isles' Presidents' Award. He won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for work on Bugs Britannica.

General Fields

  • : 9780224098656
  • : Vintage
  • : Square Peg
  • : 0.568
  • : July 2015
  • : 223mm X 154mm X 31mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter Marren
  • : Hardback
  • : Hardback
  • : 595.7890941
  • : 595.7890941
  • : 320
  • : 320
  • : black and white engravings
  • : black and white engravings