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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, 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.A scholarly and captivating excursion into the history of natural history, further enlivened by vivid portraits of some of the butterfly enthusiasts of the past
- Michael McCarthy, Independent
Never again will this reader, at least, take a butterfly for granted… Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, Rainbow Dust is a truly marvellous book
- Sophia Waugh, 5 stars, Telegraph
In Peter Marren Britain’s butterflies have found their champion. Is <i>Rainbow Dust</i> worth a flutter? Oh, absolutely
- John Lewis-Stempel, The Times
[A] superbly distilled statement on our national obsession with butterflies
- Mark Cocker, Spectator
Whether you know a lot or a little about butterflies, this is an essential read
- Peter Forbes, Independant
A thoroughly researched and passionate celebration of fragile butterflies
Mail on Sunday
A celebration of the role that butterflies play in our imagination and cultural lives, examining our enduring fascination for a group of invertebrates that has inspired artists and writers
- Matt Swaine, 4 stars, BBC Focus
beautifully written... whatever you think you know about butterflies, prepare to be surprised and delighted
- Brett Westwood, BBC Wildlife
Marren unearths a fascinating tale […] his book is stunning: as stunning as the first Red Admiral on a June morning
- Michael McCarthy, Resurgence & Ecologist
Riveting. The most important book written about butterflies and their past and current status and their demise. The author is to be congratulated and my thanks to him for so many important memories
- Ray Collier, Highland News Group
Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike.
Beginning with the author's own experience of hunting and rearing butterflies as a boy, Peter Marren considers the special place of the butterfly in art, literature, advertising and science, and, latterly, our attempts to conserve them.
Rainbow Dust takes in the controversy over collecting, the women who studied them and the curious details that lead to butterflies being feared as well as loved. This is a celebration of butterflies; one shot through with a sense of wonder but also of sorrow at what we are losing.
Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike.
- i: Introduction: The Painted Lady
- 1.: Meeting the Butterfly
- 2.: Chasing the Clouded Yellow
- 3.: Graylings: The Birthday of a Passion
- 4.: Gatekeepers: Collecting with Jean Froissart, John Fowles and Vladimir Nabokov
- 5.: Lady Glanville's Fritillary
- 6.: At the Sign of the Chequered Skipper
- 7.: The Golden Hog or The Wonderful Names of Butterflies
- 8.: Seeing Red: The Admiral
- 9.: Fire and Brimstone: Butterflies and the Imagination
- 10.: Silver Washes and Pearl Borders: Painting Butterflies
- 11.: Endgame: The Large Blue and Other Dropouts
- 12.: The Wall or How to Save a Butterfly
- 13.: Envoi: Aurora or the Daughter of Dawn
- ii: Appendix: British Butterflies
- iii: Notes
- iv: Bibliography
- v: Acknowledgements
- vi: Index