Insectopedia (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed,Remainder mark
What does it mean to share a world with insects? Insectopedia is a magnificent, genre-defying work that chronicles the profound and often startling relationships between humans and the six-legged creatures that have inhabited our planet for hundreds of millions of years. Structured as an encyclopaedia — one entry for each letter of the alphabet — Hugh Raffles weaves together science, history, philosophy, and travel writing to present twenty-six intimate portraits of insects and the human cultures that have revered, feared, eaten, and been transformed by them, from the cricket-fighting arenas of Shanghai to the locust swarms of the Sahara. Raffles writes with the precision of a naturalist and the soul of a poet, crafting a text that is as intellectually rigorous as it is lyrical and surprising. Insectopedia argues that to truly understand insects is to understand ourselves — our desires, our fears, and our deep, often unconscious connections to the non-human world. Winner of the Orion Book Award, this work stands as a landmark in contemporary nature writing, and leaves the reader with an unsettling and exhilarating question: who, exactly, is observing whom?
Author: Hugh Raffles
Format: Hardback
Genre: Natural history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed,Remainder mark
What does it mean to share a world with insects? Insectopedia is a magnificent, genre-defying work that chronicles the profound and often startling relationships between humans and the six-legged creatures that have inhabited our planet for hundreds of millions of years. Structured as an encyclopaedia — one entry for each letter of the alphabet — Hugh Raffles weaves together science, history, philosophy, and travel writing to present twenty-six intimate portraits of insects and the human cultures that have revered, feared, eaten, and been transformed by them, from the cricket-fighting arenas of Shanghai to the locust swarms of the Sahara. Raffles writes with the precision of a naturalist and the soul of a poet, crafting a text that is as intellectually rigorous as it is lyrical and surprising. Insectopedia argues that to truly understand insects is to understand ourselves — our desires, our fears, and our deep, often unconscious connections to the non-human world. Winner of the Orion Book Award, this work stands as a landmark in contemporary nature writing, and leaves the reader with an unsettling and exhilarating question: who, exactly, is observing whom?