bourchard jacket keyline.inddJ.B.S. Haldane famously said that, judging from His works, God must have an inordinate fondness for beetles, and if The Book of Beetles; A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature’s Gems is any indication, so does its author Patrice Bouchard.

With life-sized as well as magnified images of six hundred species of beetle included, each with an associated distribution map, notes on the biology of the species, explanation of conservation status, and notes on any known cultural significance held by it, this is truly an excellent book to introduce the newcomer to the enormity and variation of this remarkably prolific Order Coleoptera. (Needless to say, it will also provide the more experienced naturalist with hour after hour of discoveries and delights.)

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