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RAINBOW DUST THREE CENTURIES OF DELIGHT IN BRITISH BUTTERFLIES firm sale by MARREN PETER
Category: Animals & Nature
Like fluttering shards of stained glass, butterflies possess a unique power to pierce and stir the human soul. Indeed, the ancient Greeks explicitly equated the two in a single word, psyche, so that from early times butterflies were not only a form of life, but also an idea. Profound and deeply personal ...Show more
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren
Category: Nature
Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. Beginning with the author's own experience of hunting and rearing butterflies as a boy, Peter Marren consider ...Show more
The Consolation of Nature - Spring in the Time of Coronavirus by Michael McCarthy; Jeremy Mynott; Peter Marren
Category: Animals & Nature
Nature took on a new importance for thousands of people when the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Britain, providing solace in a time of great anxiety - not least because the crisis struck at the beginning of spring, the season of hope and renewal; and furthermore, in an extraordinary conjunction, the sp ...Show more
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