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

Name: Nabokov's Blues: the Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius
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ISBN: 9780071373302

ISBN-10: 0071373306

ISBN-13: 9780071373302

Edition: 2001

Authors: Kurt Johnson, Steve Coates

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 3/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


The Aurelian


The Most Famous Lepidopterist in the World


A Tricky Subject


A Legendary Land


Lumpers and Splitters


A Life in Lepidoptery


The Searchers


Scientists and Strategy


The Incorrigible Continent


The Vertical Landscape


Finding the Frontiers


Dancing with Fire


Nabokov's Blues


The Code


The Race to Name Nabokov's Blues


Literature and Lepidoptera


Darwin's Finches--Nabokov's Blues


Afterword


A Glossary of Binomial and Common Nabokovian Butterfly Names


Nabokov's Scientific Publications on Blue Butterflies


Principal Academic Publications Completing Nabokov's Work on Neotropical Blues


General Bibliography


Index