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Informationen zum Autor Peter Marren is a wildlife writer, journalist and authority on invertebrate folklore and names. His books include the bestselling Rainbow Dust ; The New Naturalists , which won the Society for the History of Natural History’s Thackray Medal; and Britain’s Rare Flowers , which won the Botanical Society of the British Isles’ Presidents’ Award. Peter also won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his work on Bugs Britannica . Richard Mabey is the father of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some forty influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White: a Biography, and Flora Britannica . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society. He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash trees. Klappentext The third in the series, following on from "Flora" and "Bugs". Not a biological guide, this instead looks at the natural world through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists and naturalists, as well as contributions by ordinary men and women who are fascinated by creepy-crawlies of all kinds. Illustrated in colour throughout. Zusammenfassung Discussing the fascinating habits of the bug world, this title includes the eccentric behaviour of the bug obsessives themselves. It is suitable for naturalists and those who cares about the crawling, buzzing swarms at our feet.
