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100	1		_aMarren, Peter, _eauthor. _9173027
245	1	0	_aRainbow dust : _bthree centuries of butterfly delight : with a new preface / _cPeter Marren.
246	3	0	_aThree centuries of butterfly delight
264		1	_aChicago, IL : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c[2016]
264		4	_c©2016
300			_axx, 308 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aOriginally published with subtitle: Three centuries of delight in British butterflies. London : Square Peg, 2015. With new preface.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- Introduction : the painted lady -- Meeting the butterfly -- Chasing the clouded yellow -- Graylings : the birth of a passion -- Gatekeepers : collecting with Jean Froissart, John Fowles and Vladimir Nabokov -- Lady Glanville's fritillary -- At the sign of the chequered skipper -- The golden hog or the wonderful names of butterflies -- Seeing red : the admiral -- Fire and brimstone : butterflies and the imagination -- Silver washes and pearl borders : painting butterflies -- Endgame : the large blue and other dropouts -- The wall or how to protect a butterfly -- Envoi : Aurora or the daughter of dawn -- Appendix : British butterflies.
520			_a"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 (even though butterflies are essentially economically worthless), Marren unveils the many ways in which butterflies inspire us as objects of beauty and as symbols both transient and transcendent. Floating around the globe and through the whole gamut of human thought, from art and literature to religion and science, Rainbow Dust is a cultural history rather than merely a natural one, a tribute to butterflies' power to surprise, entertain, and obsess us. With a sway that far surpasses their fragile anatomy and gentle beat, butterfly wings draw us into the prismatic wonders of the natural world--and, in the words of Marren, these wonders take flight."--Dust jacket.
650		0	_aButterflies. _922818
650		0	_aButterflies _zGreat Britain. _9318666
650		0	_aButterflies _xSocial aspects. _9318667
650		0	_aButterflies _xCollection and preservation. _9318668
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