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During the 1940s Vladimir Nabokov was an acknowldged experts in Blues, a diverse group of Latin American butterflies. This book, which is part biography, explores the worldwide crisis in biodiversity and the place of butterflies in Nabokov's fiction.

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Author:   Kurt Johnson ,  Steve Coates
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Professional
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9780071373302

ISBN 10:   0071373306
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   16 March 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Part I: The Aurelian. Chapter 1: The Most Famous Lepidopterist in the World. Chapter 2: A Tricky Subject. Chapter 3: A Legendary Land. Chapter 4: Lumpers and Splitters. Chapter 5: A Life in Lepidoptery. Part II: The Searchers. Chapter 6: Scientists and Strategy. Chapter 7: The Incorrigible Continent. Chapter 8: The Vertical Landscape. Chapter 9: Finding the Frontiers. Chapter 10: Dancing with Fire. Part III: Nabokov's Blues. Chapter 11: The Code. Chapter 12: The Race to Name Nabokov's Blues. Chapter 13: Literature and Lepidoptera. Chapter 14: Darwin's Finches - Nabokov's Blues.

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Kurt Johnson, Ph.D. (New York, NY) is a widely published lepidopterist and a foremost expert on Vladimir Nabokov’s lepidoptery. It was during his 15-year association with the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, that he and his colleagues took up the research on Blues where Nabokov left off. Kurt Johnson, Ph.D. (New York, NY) is a widely published lepidopterist and a foremost expert on Steve Coates (New York, NY) is an editor at The New York Times and the author of numerous articles and reviews on cultural topics for the Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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