{"product_id":"rainbow-dust-three-centuries-of-delight-in-british-butterflies-by-peter-marren","title":"Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781784703189\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVintage Books, August 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e320 pages, Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA uniquely personal book about butterflies and about the people who love them -- which, surely, is most of us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRainbow Dust \u003c\/span\u003eexplores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRainbow Dust\u003c\/span\u003e 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. This is a celebration of butterflies; one shot through with a sense of wonder but also of sorrow at what we are losing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47436462555298,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/81yaJ4c5PfL._SY342.jpg?v=1784201496","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/rainbow-dust-three-centuries-of-delight-in-british-butterflies-by-peter-marren","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}