Books of The Times: The Weird, Wide World of Bugs in Hugh Raffles’s ‘Insectopedia’
Hugh Raffles’s fluky, perversely appealing collection of essays about his adventures with insects skips from Manhattan’s water bugs to Chernobyl’s mutants, from cricket fights to locust plagues.
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 24 March, 2010
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