A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN READERS' BOOK OF THE YEAR At the end of his sorry life, Teddy Everett, reluctant heir to the Everett fortune realises that he may have been at his best when he was 14, the night Kebreth made him a communist by rubbing coffee bean oil on his face. Then he w[...]
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.[...]