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Sjöberg, Fredrik.
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Sjöberg, Fredrik.
Malaise, René Edmond, 1892-1978.
Entomologists -- Sweden -- Biography.
Entomology.
Scientific expeditions -- History.
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Sjöberg, Fredrik.
Sjöberg, Fredrik.
Malaise, René Edmond, 1892-1978.
Entomologists -- Sweden -- Biography.
Entomology.
Scientific expeditions -- History.
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The fly trap /
Fredrik
Sjöberg
; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal.
by
Sjöberg
,
Fredrik
.
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016.
Call #:
595.7092 S625f
Subjects
Sjöberg
,
Fredrik
.
Malaise, René Edmond, 1892-1978.
Entomologists -- Sweden -- Biography.
Entomology.
Scientific expeditions -- History.
ISBN:
9781101872284 (pbk.)
Uniform title:
Flugfällan. English.
Edition:
First Vintage Books edition.
Description:
278 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2015.
Originally published as Flugfällan in 2004 in Sweden by Nya Doxa, Dora.
Contents:
The curse of the starving class -- My entry into hoverfly high society -- A trap in Rangoon -- The man who loved islands -- The archipelago of buttonology -- René Malaise (1892-1978) -- Narcissiana -- The riddle of Doros -- In the shadow of a volcano -- The net and loneliness -- The fly tree -- The entomologist's career -- Slowness -- The island that sank in the sea -- The legible landscape -- Doctor Orlík and I -- The allotted time -- Portrait of Old man.
Summary:
For years, entomologist
Fredrik
Sjöberg
has collected, cataloged, and obsessed over the hoverflies that populate the remote Swedish island he calls home. As confounded by his unusual vocation as anyone,
Sjöberg
explores what drives the obsessive curiosity of collectors, along the way finding time to muse on everything from art to lost love, and drawing on sources as disparate as D. H. Lawrence and the fascinating and forgotten naturalist René Edmond Malaise. One remarkable individual's meditation on the unexpected beauty of small things and an examination of the history of entomology itself. Weaving a fascinating web of associations, histories, and personal memories,
Sjöberg
revels in the wonders of the natural world and, through indelible images and stories, opens up into it a dazzling, irresistible pathway.
Fredrik
Sjöberg
is an entomologist and lives with his family on the island of Runmarö, in the archipelago east of Stockholm.
Other authors:
Teal, Thomas.
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