Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight

by Peter Marren

Book Overview

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, written with both wisdom and wit, Peter Marren's Rainbow Dust explores this idea of butterflies--the why behind the mysterious power...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022639588X
• ISBN13: 9780226395883
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"