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NABOKOV'S BLUES : the scientific odyssey of a literary Genius
[Buy it!] | Johnson,Kurt, Steve Coates | USD 25.00
(Sat Jun 8 02:50:31 2024) | Abebooks | Harry E Bagley Books Ltd | ISBN10: 1581950098, ISBN13: 9781581950090, [publisher: Zoland Books, Cambridge, Mass.] Hardcover First Edition cloth, xii, 372 pages :illustrated, maps, CONTENTS: The Aurelian --The Most Famous Lepidopterist in the World --A Tricky Subject --A Legendary Land --Lumpers and Splitters --A Life in Lepidoptery --The Searchers --Scientists and Strategy --The Incorrigible Continent --The Vertical Landscape --Finding the Frontiers --Dancing with Fire --Nabokov's Blues , The Code -- The Race to Name Nabokov's Blues -- Literature and Lepidoptera --Darwin's Finches--Nabokov's Blues --A Glossary of Binomial and Common Nabokovian Butterfly Names --Nabokov's Scientific Publications on Blue Butterflies --Principal Academic Publications Completing Nabokov's Work on Neotropical Blues. "If Vladimir Nabokov had never written a line of fiction, he would have an honored reputation as a naturalist.".Stephen Jay Gould; (from the dust jacket) Size: 8 vo, (24 cm)
[Fredericton, NB, Canada] [Publication Year: 1999]
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