Nabokov's blues : the scientific odyssey of a literary genius

著者

• Johnson, Kurt
• Coates, Steven L.

書誌事項

Nabokov's blues : the scientific odyssey of a literary genius

Kurt Johnson, Steve Coates

McGraw-Hill, c1999

• : pbk

注記

Previously published in hardcover by Zoland Books

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-356) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

During the 1940s Vladimir Nabokov was an acknowldged experts in Blues, a diverse group of Latin American butterflies. This book, which is part biography, explores the worldwide crisis in biodiversity and the place of butterflies in Nabokov's fiction.

目次

Part I: The Aurelian. Chapter 1: The Most Famous Lepidopterist in the World. Chapter 2: A Tricky Subject. Chapter 3: A Legendary Land. Chapter 4: Lumpers and Splitters. Chapter 5: A Life in Lepidoptery. Part II: The Searchers. Chapter 6: Scientists and Strategy. Chapter 7: The Incorrigible Continent. Chapter 8: The Vertical Landscape. Chapter 9: Finding the Frontiers. Chapter 10: Dancing with Fire. Part III: Nabokov's Blues. Chapter 11: The Code. Chapter 12: The Race to Name Nabokov's Blues. Chapter 13: Literature and Lepidoptera. Chapter 14: Darwin's Finches - Nabokov's Blues.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA78256753
• ISBN:
  • 0071373306
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 372 p., [8] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QL31.N23
  • DC21 : 595.78/092
  • DC21 : B
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
  • LCSH : Entomologists -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Butterflies in literature
  • LCSH : Butterflies