Nabokov's blues : the scientific odyssey of a literary genius / by Kurt Johnson, Steve Coates.
Nabokov's blues : the scientific odyssey of a literary genius / by Kurt Johnson, Steve Coates.
Nabokov's blues : the scientific odyssey of a literary genius / by Kurt Johnson, Steve Coates.
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Cambridge, MA : Zoland Books, 1999.
Date
1999.
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T0388633
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English
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xii, 372 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. The Aurelian. 1. The Most Famous Lepidopterist in the World. 2. A Tricky Subject. 3. A Legendary Land. 4. Lumpers and Splitters. 5. A Life in Lepidoptery -- Pt. II. The Searchers. 6. Scientists and Strategy. 7. The Incorrigible Continent. 8. The Vertical Landscape. 9. Finding the Frontiers. 1...
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Cambridge, MA : Zoland Books, 1999.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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"Part biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, and part scientific detective story, Nabokoy's Blues explores the rich and varied place butterflies hold in Nabokov's fiction, as well as far-reaching questions of biogeography and evolution, and the worldwide crisis in ecology and biodiversity."--BOOK JACKET....
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Nabokov's blues : the scientific odyssey of a literary genius / by Kurt Johnson, Steve Coates.
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Includes bibliographical references p. [349] - 356 and index.
Transferred from N595.78092/1.
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T0388633
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1581950098 :
9781581950090
1581950098
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595.78092
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991012764799702626
