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100 1 $aJohnson, Kurt.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91122975
245 10 $aNabokov's blues :$bthe scientific odyssey of a literary genius /$cKurt Johnson, Steve Coates.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bZoland Books,$c1999.
300 $axii, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tThe Aurelian.$g1.$tThe Most Famous Lepidopterist in the World.$g2.$tA Tricky Subject.$g3.$tA Legendary Land.$g4.$tLumpers and Splitters.$g5.$tA Life in Lepidoptery --$gPt. II.$tThe Searchers.$g6.$tScientists and Strategy.$g7.$tThe Incorrigible Continent.$g8.$tThe Vertical Landscape.$g9.$tFinding the Frontiers.$g10.$tDancing with Fire --$gPt. III.$tNabokov's Blues.$g11.$tThe Code.$g12.$tThe Race to Name Nabokov's Blues.$g13.$tLiterature and Lepidoptera.$g14.$tDarwin's Finches - Nabokov's Blues.$tA Glossary of Binomial and Common Nabokovian Butterfly Names --$tNabokov's Scientific Publications on Blue Butterflies --$tPrincipal Academic Publications Completing Nabokov's Work on Neotropical Blues.
520 1 $a"One of the last of the gentleman-naturalists, Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian-American author of Lolita and other enduring works of fiction, had no formal training in biology, but during the 1940s was an acknowledged expert on Blues, a diverse group of butterflies inhabiting some of the remotest parts of Latin America.
520 8 $aIn 1945, while serving as curator at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, he published a radical new classification of Blues, a paper that initially caused a stir in the rarified field of lepidoptery."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"It was nearly fifty years before scientists followed up on his pioneering work, with a series of expeditions to the high Andes of South America. What they found led not only to new thinking about Nabokov's place in science, but to fresh insights on the global movement of species and the threat of their extinction."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"Part biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, and part scientific detective story, Nabokoy's Blues explores the rich and varied place butterflies hold in Nabokov's fiction, as well as far-reaching questions of biogeography and evolution, and the worldwide crisis in ecology and biodiversity."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,$d1899-1977.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81015312
650 0 $aEntomologists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aButterflies in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94000969
600 10 $aFrost, Helen,$d1949-$tButterflies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98094203
700 1 $aCoates, Steven L.,$d1955-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99032264
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