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An engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as a natural history instructor, dragonfly monitor, cancer survivor, and grandmother, Crosby tells the stories of dragonflies: their roles in poetry and art, their sex life and their evolution from dark-water dwellers to denizens of the air.

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An engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as a natural history instructor, dragonfly monitor, cancer survivor, and grandmother, Crosby tells the stories of dragonflies: their roles in poetry and art, their sex life and their evolution from dark-water dwellers to denizens of the air.
Autorenporträt
CINDY CROSBY is the author of The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction (Northwestern University Press, 2017). She is a natural history instructor in the Chicago region who coordinates dragonfly monitoring programs at the Morton Arboretum and Nachusa Grasslands, a Nature Conservancy site. PEGGY MACNAMARA is the artist in residence at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.