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bug facts
bugs
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e o wilson
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famous scientists
insect history
insects
libraries
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naturalists
nature
new york
new york public library
pulitzer prize finalist 2026
rachel carson
science comics
science facts
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- ISBN 9781324035718
- Weight: 1220g
- Dimensions: 229 x 277mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2025
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This visually immersive work of graphic non-fiction 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, colour 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.
Galvanised by the sixth extinction and the ongoing insect crisis, Kuper takes readers on an unforgettable journey.
Peter Kuper wrote the Eisner Award–winning Ruins and critically acclaimed adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, and Metamorphosis. He founded the political anthology World War 3 Illustrated, writes and draws Mad magazine’s Spy vs. Spy, and taught Harvard University’s first class dedicated to graphic novels and comics.
