{"product_id":"2026100008839-secondhand-insectopedia-signed","title":"Insectopedia (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed,Remainder mark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\n\nRaffles 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336810963163,"sku":"2026100008839-SECONDHAND","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8dd760fd-8cd0-453e-badc-41f0e75867e4.png?v=1789958381","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008839-secondhand-insectopedia-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}