Author: Margaret Erhart
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780452295490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Arriving in her in-laws' mid-20th-century Arizona community with her much-older husband, Jane Merkel discovers her affinity for catching butterflies, realizes an attraction to a young ranger and uncovers a dark town secret. Original.
Butterflies of Grand Canyon National Park
Author: John Shrader Garth
Publisher:
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Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Butterflies of Grand Canyon
Author: Margaret Erhart
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780452295490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Arriving in her in-laws' mid-20th-century Arizona community with her much-older husband, Jane Merkel discovers her affinity for catching butterflies, realizes an attraction to a young ranger and uncovers a dark town secret. Original.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780452295490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Arriving in her in-laws' mid-20th-century Arizona community with her much-older husband, Jane Merkel discovers her affinity for catching butterflies, realizes an attraction to a young ranger and uncovers a dark town secret. Original.
Grand Canyon Nature Notes
Author: United States. National Park Service
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Grand Canyon Plants and Animals
Author: Dot Barlowe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486472949
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Thirty beautiful, accurate illustrations of the popular national park's wildlife and vegetation include ravens, coyotes, and lizards, as well as yucca blossoms and other desert plants. Informative captions accompany each drawing.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486472949
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Thirty beautiful, accurate illustrations of the popular national park's wildlife and vegetation include ravens, coyotes, and lizards, as well as yucca blossoms and other desert plants. Informative captions accompany each drawing.
A Field Guide to Western Butterflies
Author: Paul A. Opler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395791516
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
This all-new edition includes information on more than 590 species, illustrated in lifelike positions in 44 beautiful color plates. 110 color photos. Line drawings & maps.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395791516
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
This all-new edition includes information on more than 590 species, illustrated in lifelike positions in 44 beautiful color plates. 110 color photos. Line drawings & maps.
Nabokov's Butterflies
Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807085400
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807085400
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Butterfly
Author:
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Category : Humanity
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Humanity
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
California Butterflies
Author: John S. Garth
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520317440
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520317440
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Global Advances in Biogeography
Author: Lawrence Stevens
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9535104543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Global Advances in Biogeography brings together the work of more than 30 scientific authorities on biogeography from around the world. The book focuses on spatial and temporal variation of biological assemblages in relation to landscape complexity and environmental change. Global Advances embraces four themes: biogeographic theory and tests of concepts, the regional biogeography of individual taxa, the biogeography of complex landscapes, and the deep-time evolutionary biogeography of macrotaxa. In addition, the book provides a trove of new information about unusual landscapes, the natural history of a wide array of poorly known plant and animal species, and global conservation issues. This book is well illustrated with numerous maps, graphics, and photographs, and contains much new basic biogeographical information that is not available elsewhere. It will serve as an invaluable reference for professionals and members of the public interested in global biogeography, evolution, taxonomy, and conservation.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9535104543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Global Advances in Biogeography brings together the work of more than 30 scientific authorities on biogeography from around the world. The book focuses on spatial and temporal variation of biological assemblages in relation to landscape complexity and environmental change. Global Advances embraces four themes: biogeographic theory and tests of concepts, the regional biogeography of individual taxa, the biogeography of complex landscapes, and the deep-time evolutionary biogeography of macrotaxa. In addition, the book provides a trove of new information about unusual landscapes, the natural history of a wide array of poorly known plant and animal species, and global conservation issues. This book is well illustrated with numerous maps, graphics, and photographs, and contains much new basic biogeographical information that is not available elsewhere. It will serve as an invaluable reference for professionals and members of the public interested in global biogeography, evolution, taxonomy, and conservation.
The Vertebrates of Arizona
Author: Charles H. Lowe
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816552533
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
“This compact book summarizes the distribution of all of the Recent species of vertebrates of Arizona. The introductory Part 1, 'Arizona landscapes and habitats,' by Lowe, is an instructive and detailed ecological discussion of the diversified topography, climate, and flora of the state, illustrated with numerous excellent photographs.”—The Auk “An impressive volume . . . a valuable reference for professional biologists, students, and others interested in the native fauna of Arizona and its distribution there.”—Science
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816552533
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
“This compact book summarizes the distribution of all of the Recent species of vertebrates of Arizona. The introductory Part 1, 'Arizona landscapes and habitats,' by Lowe, is an instructive and detailed ecological discussion of the diversified topography, climate, and flora of the state, illustrated with numerous excellent photographs.”—The Auk “An impressive volume . . . a valuable reference for professional biologists, students, and others interested in the native fauna of Arizona and its distribution there.”—Science