Bugs Britannica
$110.15
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2010
Summary
From sea squirts to slugs to swallowtails, the third, fabulous and gorgeously illustrated book in Richard Mabey’s series, a companion volume to the bestselling classics Flora Britannica and Birds Britannica.
As with Flora and Birds, Bugs is not a biological guide but a richly-illustrated cultural one, seen through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists and naturalists - from the great Tudor naturalist, Thomas Muffet (father of Little Miss Muffet) to Irvine Welsh’s talking tapeworm in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780701181802 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 070118180X |
| Author: | Peter Marren, Richard Mabey |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 2.31kg |
| Dimensions: | 288mm x 224mm x 37mm |
| Series: | Britannica |
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“The 400
“The 400-plus color illustrations throughout are superlative.” –Library Journal on Birds Britannica
About The Author
Peter Marren
Peter Marren is a wildlife writer, journalist and authority on invertebrate folklore and names. His books include The New Naturalists, which won the Society for the History of Natural History’s Thackray Medal, and Britain’s Rare Flowers, which won the Botanical Society of the British Isles’ Presidents’ Award. He won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for work on Bugs Britannica.
Richard Mabey is ‘Britain’s greatest living nature writer’ (The Times) and the force behind the Britannica series. Among his acclaimed publications are Food for Free, Gilbert White (Whitbread Biography of the Year) Nature Cure, Beechcombings and Flora Britannica, which won the British Book Awards’ Illustrated Book of the Year and the Botanical Society of the British Isles’ President’s Award. He also collaborated with Mark Cocker on Birds Britannica.
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