Rainbow Dust

<p><b>Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies <i>Rainbow Dust</i> explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike</b>. <br><br>Beginning with the author's own experience of hunting and rearing butterflies as a boy, Peter Marren considers the special place of the butterfly in art, literature, advertising and science, and, latterly, our attempts to conserve them.<br><br><i>Rainbow Dust</i> takes in the controversy over collecting, the women who studied them and the curious details that lead to butterflies being feared as well as loved. <b>This is a celebration of butterflies</b>; one shot through with a sense of wonder but also of sorrow at what we are losing.</p>