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The Illusion of Orderly Progress
by Barbara "Bobbie" Pugh Norfleet (1926- )
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375405585
- ISBN 13
- 9780375405587
- Seller
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About This Item
101 pages with color frontispiece and photographs. Oblong octavo (8 3/4' x 10 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial covers. Foreword by Edward O Wilson. First edition. From one of America's most distinguished and quirkily gifted photographers, a wildly original book of images that chronicles--and critiques--the curiously familiar social life of bugs. Barbara Norfleet loves bugs for both their beauty and their strangeness, and the fact that they've been on earth so much longer than the human race that they make us look like new kids on the block. In this remarkable collection, she sets out to explore her own vision of bug society--its feelings, its relationships and rituals, its neuroses and malaises at the end of what is, after all, just one more millennium in bug history. From a grasshopper poised triumphantly atop a rock and a spindly-armed pair of Harlequin beetles dancing, to a group of twittering bugs gathered to watch the sun set, a beetle beauty pageant, and a bug hanging, Norfleet captures with extraordinary humor and perception an amazing reflection of our own experience and feelings. Most wonderful of all is what we are led to discover--that bugs are us. Condition: Near fine.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DSL011
- Title
- The Illusion of Orderly Progress
- Author
- Barbara "Bobbie" Pugh Norfleet (1926- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375405585
- ISBN 13
- 9780375405587
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Oblong octavo
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