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COPYRIGHT 2003 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
by Sharman Apt Russell Perseus Publishing, 2003; $24.00
Butterflies, as nature writer Sharman Russell aptly observes, can be practically invisible at times, as though they inhabited a separate dimension; they flutter among us in full view and yet we scarcely notice them. She's right. I can distinguish a robin from a blue jay, a crow from a sparrow (and even, like Hamlet, "a hawk from a handsaw"), but I couldn't identify a single one of the ninety-three common species of butterflies Russell lists in the preface to this slender collection of essays. If my experience is any measure, many...
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