If ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 1066 must have a strong claim. King Harold faced invasion not just from William and the Normans across the English Channel but from the Dane, King Harald Hadrada. Before he faced the Normans at Hastings in October he had fought and defeated [...]
Liberally laced with contemporary quotations, and containing photographic portraits of many early lepidopterists and their equipment, the volume presents 200 years of British butterfly study, including the work of members of the Aurelian Society, founded in the early-18th century.[...]