Rainbow dust
Subtitle: three centuries of butterfly delight
By: Peter Marren
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780226395883
Subjects: Social aspects; Collection and preservation; Butterflies
Notes: Originally published with subtitle: Three centuries of delight in British butterflies. London : Square Peg, 2015. With new preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The painted lady; title: 1. Meeting the butterfly; title: 2. Chasing the clouded yellow; title: 3. Graylings : the birth of a passion; title: 4. Gatekeepers : collecting with Jean Froissart, John Fowles and Vladimir Nabokov; title: 5. Lady Glanville's fritillary; title: 6. At the sign of the chequered skipper; title: 7. The golden hog or the wonderful names of butterflies; title: 8. Seeing red : the admiral; title: 9. Fire and brimstone : butterflies and the imagination; title: 10. Silver washes and pearl borders : painting butterflies; title: 11. Endgame : the large blue and other dropouts; title: 12. The wall or how to protect a butterfly; title: 13. Envoi: Aurora or the daughter of dawn; title: Appendix: British butterflies.