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100	1		_aLowen, James, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMuch ado about mothing : _ba year intoxicated by Britain's rare and remarkable moths / _cJames Lowen.
264		1	_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Wildlife, _c2021.
300			_a384 pages, 8 pages unnumbered plates : _bcolor illustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 372-373).
505	0		_aPrologue -- The winter garden... and beyond -- Cats, tracks and caves -- The spring garden : leaves, twigs and bird craps -- (What's the story) Kentish Glory? -- Why H is for Hawk-moth too -- The Clearwing King... dethroned -- If small is beautiful, how gorgeous is tiny? -- Dry zone -- Wetsuit -- Sylvan secrets -- All the moths look the same -- The summer garden.. and its lost souls -- Life's a beach -- Rock and a hard place -- Heather -- New arrivals, welcome? -- Winged wanderers -- Perfect blue -- The autumn garden... of memes and leaves -- Southern comfort.
520			_aAlthough mostly unseen by us, moths are everywhere. And their capacity to delight astounds. Inspired by a revelatory encounter with a Poplar Hawk-moth a huge, velvety-winged wonder wrapped in silver James Lowen embarks on a year-long quest to celebrate the joy of Britain's rarest and most remarkable moths. By hiking up mountains, wading through marshes and roaming by night amid ancient woodlands, James follows the trails of both Victorian collectors and present-day conservationists. Seeking to understand why they and many ordinary folk love what the general public purports to hate, his investigations reveal a heady world of criminality and controversy, derring-do and determination. From Cornwall to the Cairngorms, James explores British landscapes to coax these much-maligned creatures out from the cover of darkness and into the light. Moths are revealed to be attractive, astonishing and approachable; capable of migratory feats and camouflage mastery, moths have much to tell us on the state of the nation's wild and not-so-wild habitats. As a counterweight to his travels, James and his young daughter track the seasons through a kaleidoscope of moth species living innocently yet covertly in their suburban garden. Without even leaving home, they bond over a shared joy in the uncommon beauty of common creatures, for perhaps the greatest virtue of moths, we learn, is their accessibility. Moths may be everywhere, but above all, they are here. Quite unexpectedly, no animals may be better placed to inspire the environmentalists of the future.
600	1	0	_aLowen, James _xTravel _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_aMoths _zGreat Britain.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xDescription and travel. _926907
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