Insectopolis (eBook)

A Natural History

Peter Kuper (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
256 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-03572-5 (ISBN)

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Shortlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Illustrative BooksAward-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper transports readers through the 400-million-year history of insects and the remarkable entomologists who have studied them.This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanitys connection to them throughout the ages. Kupers thrilling visual feast layers history and science, color and design, to tell the remarkable tales of dung beetles navigating by the stars, hawk-size prehistoric dragonflies hunting prey, and mosquitoes changing the course of human history.Kuper also illuminates pioneering naturalists, from well-known figures like E. O. Wilson and Rachel Carson to unheralded luminaries like Charles Henry Turner, the Black American scholar who documented arthropod intelligence, and Maria Sybilla Merian, the seventeenth-century German regarded as the mother of entomology.Galvanized by the sixth extinction and the ongoing insect crisis, Kuper takes readers on an unforgettable journey.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Schlagworte: bug facts • Bugs • Comic Book • Dystopia • E O Wilson • famous scientists • insect history • Insects • libraries • Natural History • Naturalists • Nature • New York • New York Public Library • Rachel Carson • Science Comics • Science Facts
• ISBN-10: 1-324-03572-2 / 1324035722
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-03572-5 / 9781324035725