Mark Cocker

The soul takes flight

Two new books — Rainbow Dust by Peter Marren and In Pursuit of Butterflies by Matthew Oates — celebrate the powerful myths surrounding these ravishing ephemera

issue 01 August 2015

  • Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies

    Peter Marren

    Square Peg, pp. 320

  • In Pursuit of Butterflies: A Fifty Year Affair

    Matthew Oates

    Bloomsbury, pp. 480

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