Butterfly People
William R. Leach
From one of our most highly regarded historians, an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America's infatuation with butterflies and the naturalists who described and named countless new species and unveiled the mysteries of their existence.
A product of William Leach's life-long love of butterflies and in-depth original research into nineteenth-century correspondence and scientific writings, this engaging, elegantly illustrated history shows how Americans from all walks of life passionately pursued butterflies and through their discoveries and observations transformed the character of natural history. Leach focuses on a half dozen of the pioneer lepidopterists who traveled across the country and then the world, collecting and studying unknown and exotic species. Among the most brilliant were William Henry Edwards, radical Darwinian and great grandson of the theologian Jonathan Edwards, and brave Will Doherty of Cincinnati who...
A product of William Leach's life-long love of butterflies and in-depth original research into nineteenth-century correspondence and scientific writings, this engaging, elegantly illustrated history shows how Americans from all walks of life passionately pursued butterflies and through their discoveries and observations transformed the character of natural history. Leach focuses on a half dozen of the pioneer lepidopterists who traveled across the country and then the world, collecting and studying unknown and exotic species. Among the most brilliant were William Henry Edwards, radical Darwinian and great grandson of the theologian Jonathan Edwards, and brave Will Doherty of Cincinnati who...
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Година:
2013
Издателство:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Език:
english
ISBN 10:
0307907872
ISBN 13:
9780307907875
Файл:
EPUB, 63.84 MB
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english, 2013
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