We are treated to wonderful stories of Charles Darwin, banker Walter Rothschild, Henry Wallace Bates and his travels to South America, author Vladimir Nabokov, and Maria Sibylla Merian, a seventeenth-century artist and notetaker who was an expert on the life cycle of the butterfly. She travels North America and takes us worldwide to see and learn about these amazing creatures in such places as Florissant, Colorado in the United States and in Michoacan, Mexico. She weaves science, history, and culture with her own personal narrative. Wendy Williams has created a wonderful book that illuminates the beauty and resilience of butterflies and the passions of artists, collectors, and scientists.
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