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Insectopedia

Deftly combining the anecdotal and the scientific, Raffles offers a stunningly original exploration of the beautiful, ancient, successful, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different insect species with which we share this world.

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Main Author: Raffles, Hugh, 1958-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Insects.
Human-animal relationships.
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Summary:Deftly combining the anecdotal and the scientific, Raffles offers a stunningly original exploration of the beautiful, ancient, successful, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different insect species with which we share this world.
Physical Description:x, 465 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-438) and index.
ISBN:9780375423864 (hc.)
0375423869 (hc.)
Author Notes:HUGH RAFFLES teaches anthropology at The New School. He is the author of In Amazonia: A Natural History, which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have been published in Best American Essays, Granta, and Orion . He received a Whiting Writers' Award in 2009. He lives in New York City.

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