The Great Gypsy Moth War Etienne Leopold Trouvelot and bagpipes

and bagpipes

Eugène Dubois and the Pithecanthropus Affair

so the chess pieces

These and similar flights of fancy were articles of faith in the twelfth century — the era of the fascinating Latin prose bestiary translated in this volume

This authoritative new translation of the book that inspired Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker (a still of which graces this edition's cover)

The Great Gypsy Moth War Etienne Leopold Trouvelot and bagpipesThe Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890 1901 By Robert J. Spear In The Great Gypsy Moth War, Robert J. Spear presents the untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America and the astonishing series of coincidences that brought the state of Massachusetts to a decade long war against this tenacious insect. Spear traces the events leading up to the