Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007959, Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:33:44 -0700

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Fw: Lepidopterists alert: "An Obsession with Butterflies"
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From: "Rodney Welch" <rodney41@mindspring.com>

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> VN is apparently cited among others in a new book on the romance of
Lepidoptera.
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> Review from today's Boston Globe:
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> "In her new book, `An Obsession with Butterflies,' award-winning nature
writer Sharman Apt Russell provides not only the biology and taxonomy of
Lepidoptera, but also the long romantic history of butterflies and their
chroniclers. From fifth-century popes, 17th-century English ladies, Taoist
masters, Vladimir Nabokov, and various curators at the British Museum, the
obsession with the 18,000 known species of butterflies and 147,000 species
of moths is ancient and powerful."
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> Here's the full review:
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http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/168/science/A_romantic_poetic_readable_look_at_butterflies+.shtml
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