Butterfly people
Subtitle: an American encounter with the beauty of the world
By: William R. Leach
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781400076925; 9780307907875
Subjects: Butterflies; History; Entomologists; Industrial revolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Yankee butterfly people: William Henry Edwards and Samuel Scudder; title: The German-American romantics: Herman Strecker and Augustus Radcliffe Grote; title: Beating hearts; title: Word power; title: The life and death of butterflies; title: In the wake of empire; title: Butterflies at the fair; title: Death of the butterfly people.