Peter Kuper

Insectopolis: A Natural History (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Award-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 humanity's connection to them throughout the ages. Kuper's 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324035725
• Artikelnr.: 72259995

Autorenporträt

Peter Kuper is the author of numerous books, including the Eisner Awardwinning Ruins. His editorial cartoons regularly appear in The New Yorker, The Nation, and Charlie Hebdo. He lives in New York.