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Emperors, Admirals and Chimney-Sweepers

The weird and wonderful names of butterflies and moths
Buch | Softcover
266 Seiten
2020
Little Toller Books (Verlag)
978-1-908213-82-2 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
This is the first accessible and comprehensive guide to the names of our butterflies and moths, both English and Latin. This beautiful book takes you on a journey back to a time before the arts and science were divided, when entomologists were also poets and painters.
Many have remarked on the poetic names of our butterflies and moths. Their beauty fires our imaginations. Some are named after human occupations and social rank: Emperors, footmen,
a miller, quakers, lackeys, ‘rustics’ and chimney-sweepers. Still more are named after animals: tigers, hawks, goats, sharks, even pug dogs. There are species named after jewels, musical
instruments, fabrics, letters, carpets, flowers, heraldry and shells. Some names are downright baffling. Why was one butterfly called an ‘admiral’ and another an ‘argus’? Why, for
that matter, are they called ‘butterflies’? The scientific names, too, contain many allusions. One whole subset of moths is named after weddings. Another group is
named after souls. A great many names are cherry-picked from classical tales and legends, often with relevance to a particular butterfly or moth. Some names are spooky, even sexy. Or funny,
for Latin names contain word games and jokes.

This is the first accessible and comprehensive guide to the names of our butterflies and moths, both English and Latin. This beautiful book, written with Peter Marren’s usual wit and insight, takes you on a journey back to a time before the arts and science were divided. When entomologists were also poets and painters, and when a gift for vivid language went hand-in-hand with a deep pre-Darwinian fascination for the emerging natural world.

About the author: Peter Marren has written widely on the natural world and our association with it. Among some twenty books, he is the author of Rainbow Dust, Bugs Britannica, The New Naturalists which won the Thackray Medal, as well as contributions to Collins New Naturalist, the British Wildlife Collection and Poyser Natural History, He writes regularly for British Wildlife and Butterfly magazine and is a former columnist in The Countryman. For 14 years he worked for the Nature Conservancy Council in Scotland and England. He lives in Ramsbury in Wiltshire.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrated throughout
Verlagsort Wimborne Minster
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturführer
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 1-908213-82-5 / 1908213825
ISBN-13 978-1-908213-82-2 / 9781908213822
Zustand Neuware
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