Butterfly people : an American encounter with the beauty of the world /
Leach, William,1944-
New York : Pantheon Books,
c2013.
Presents a chronicle of nineteenth-century America's fascination with butterflies that traces the achievements of six naturalists who identified countless new species and unveiled the mysteries of their existence.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Yankee butterfly people: William Henry Edwards and Samuel Scudder -- The German-American romantics: Herman Strecker and Augustus Radcliffe Grote -- Beating hearts -- Word power -- The life and death of butterflies -- In the wake of empire -- Butterflies at the fair -- Death of the butterfly people.
Presents a chronicle of nineteenth-century America's fascination with butterflies that traces the achievements of six naturalists who identified countless new species and unveiled the mysteries of their existence.
Butterflies
Entomologists
Industrial revolution
Lepidopterologie.
Lepidopterology.