A weird and wonderful journey into the insect world through literature, science, art, and popular culture Insects inhabit an often unseen world, pursuing strange, tiny, and astonishingly full lives far beyond our wildest imaginings. From the dawn of the written word, humans have recorded their fascination with insects, from Aristotle, the world's first "biologist," to the journals of the nineteenth-century naturalists, to the hyperbolic and highly entertaining science fiction screenplays of the twentieth century. Insect ...
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A weird and wonderful journey into the insect world through literature, science, art, and popular culture Insects inhabit an often unseen world, pursuing strange, tiny, and astonishingly full lives far beyond our wildest imaginings. From the dawn of the written word, humans have recorded their fascination with insects, from Aristotle, the world's first "biologist," to the journals of the nineteenth-century naturalists, to the hyperbolic and highly entertaining science fiction screenplays of the twentieth century. Insect Lives delightfully captures the entire range of our insect preoccupation. This eclectic and absorbing anthology of hard science, thrilling discoveries, and outlandish tales features everything from the Bible to Dave Barry, from Henry David Thoreau to Charles Darwin. Erich Hoyt (North Berwick, Scotland) has written for National Geographic and the New York Times and is the author of The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants. Ted Schultz, PhD (Washington, DC), is a Smithsonian Institution entomologist and former editor at Whole Earth Review.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book Clean hardcover first edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Dark blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages edges are clean-no names, writing or marks. Illustrated in black and white. 360 pages with index. Clean bright jacket is unchipped, unclipped, no tears. Distinguished nature writer Erich Hoyt and Smithsonian entomologist Ted Schultz have gathered more than 70 selections from the best and most entertaining writing ever penned about insects.
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