Peter Marren's ' Rainbow Dust '
Sept 14, 2015 10:11:36 GMT
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Post by nomad on Sept 14, 2015 10:11:36 GMT
There is a super new book ' Rainbow Dust ' Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren, one of the last of the all round naturalists. He is excellent entomologist and this book shows this. This is a book about butterflies but it is not a reference guide but his life among the butterflies and his and others fascination with them. This book examines his collecting days both here and in Europe. Like many collectors in Blighty, Peter turned to conserving what was left of how the author so admirably put it " our trashed countryside " and its diminishing butterflies species. He looks at the early Aurelians, the development of butterfly Art both here and in Europe. Some of the World's endangered and extinct butterflies, the reasons for their extinction ( which he argues was never the result of collectors). Today's British anti collecting brigade . Butterfly conservation in Britain. There is a excellent chapter on the Rothschilds, Walter, Charles and his daughter Miriam . Where you can and cannot collect in Europe and much more. I read this from cover to cover and did not want to put it down. Simply inspiring.
I like Peter Marren and his books, I have never met him, although he lives in the same county as me. I loved his Rare Wild Flower Book and he once helped with details where to find some very rare Scottish Alpine/Arctic flowers which I wanted to photograph.
I like Peter Marren and his books, I have never met him, although he lives in the same county as me. I loved his Rare Wild Flower Book and he once helped with details where to find some very rare Scottish Alpine/Arctic flowers which I wanted to photograph.
