Nabokov's Blues : The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius

Johnson, Kurt/ Coates, Steven L.

McGraw-Hill（2001/03発売）

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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 372 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780071373302
DDC分類 B

基本説明

"This insidiously charming book teaches readers about the place of lepidoptery in the life sciences and the kinds of questions that natural scientists seek to answer... -The New Yorker.

Full Description

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.

Part IWorld. 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.NER(01): WOW