THE DANGEROUS WORLD OF BUTTERFLIES: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists

Laufer examines the allure of butterflies and recounts the constant role they have played throughout history and across cultures in mythology and art. But his research takes an unpredictable turn into the high-stake realms of organized crime, ecological devastation, species depletion, and integrity of museum collections, and chaos theory.