Michael Salmon

Gebundenes Buch

The Aurelian Legacy - A History of British Butterflies and Their Collectors

With Contributions by Peter Marren and Basil Harley

Beschreibung

Liberally laced with contemporary quotations, this book brings to life the past three hundred years of butterfly study, with details of early societies, collecting equipment, biographies of 101 deceased lepidopterists, with portraits where available, as well as the chequered history in Britain of some 35 species of butterfly.

Autor

Michael Salmon, an amateur lepidopterist who has made a special study of butterfly variation in Britain, has spent many years in gathering together the wealth of anecdotal and illustrative material which enhance this historical account, in which he has been assisted by Peter Marren and Basil Harley.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 275mm x 210mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1660g
• ISBN-13: 9780946589401
• ISBN-10: 0946589402
• Artikelnr.: 45995861