Kontakt
Kako kupovati
Dostava
Savjetnik za kupnju
The Butterfly Thief
Engleski
45 b
Do 30 dana za povrat
Kupci su kupili i
/
Meki uvez
62.10
€
/
Meki uvez
11.22
€
/
Meki uvez
10.21
€
/
Meki uvez
16.18
€
/
Tvrdi uvez
370.93
€
The story of the most audacious serial heist in the history of Australias museumsand the British gentleman adventurer who pulled it off and got away with itin a scientific true-crime caper stretching around the globe.
In January 1947, a chance discovery rocked the world of natural science: over 3,000 rare and precious specimens of butterflies had vanished from Australias most prestigious museums in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Alarmingly, the missing insects included many priceless holotypesthe first specimen of a given species to be identified, against which all others are compared.
On the other side of the world, New Scotland Yard descended on a country house in Surrey, where they found a trove of over 40,000 butterfly specimens. The culprit was Colin Wyatt, a Cambridge-educated ski champion, mountaineer, wartime camouflager, artist, and amateur naturalist whose high-flying exploits cut a path from the Alps of Europe to a London court room to a final expedition to the jungles of Guatemala.
Drawing on unpublished casefiles, dossiers, and private archives, The Butterfly Thief pieces together Wyatts enigmatic life story and his decades-long impact on the world of natural history. Along the way, award-winning journalist Walter Marsh reveals a deeper history of gentleman explorers, scoundrels, and grave-robbers that begs an uncomfortable but vital question: What if Western museums were crime scenes all along?
Informacije o knjizi
Engleski
Poklonite ovu knjigu još danas
To je jednostavno
1 Dodajte knjigu u košaricu i odaberite isporuku kao poklon 2 Zauzvrat ćemo vam poslati kupon 3 Knjiga dolazi na adresu poklonoprimcaMoglo bi vas zanimati i
/
Meki uvez
12.13
€
/
Meki uvez
14.76
€
/
Meki uvez
28.82
€
Dobar dan! Ja sam Libroamiko, vaš književni savjetnik.
Kako vam mogu pomoći?