Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
by William R. Leach
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375422935
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422935
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About This Item
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.
Synopsis
William Leach is a professor of history at Columbia University. His previous books include Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, which was a National Book Award finalist, and Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life.
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- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ9406483
- Title
- Butterfly People
- Author
- William R. Leach
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375422935
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422935
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013-04-09
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science/Nature Writing;
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