Customer Reviews

The Hand of Nature: Butterflies, Beetles, and Dragonflies

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The photographs in this book are magnificent. It succeeds as an art book.

But no information is provided about the insects, not even their names. If you wonder if you recognize an insect, there is no way for you to check. If you see an insect that you'd like to learn more about, too bad. If you'd like to use the book as a teaching tool, you can't unless you're able to identify the insects yourself. I find this to be a huge flaw.

There are other books available that have just as beautiful photos of insects but that have the courtesy to identify what you are looking at.

brilliant photography. we have many insect ref' books... this is the best illustrated.

I haven't yet read this book... because Amazon had it on backorder since LAST CHRISTMAS (8 months ago), and they finally gave up and said they can't get it. The ordering time still says "usually ships within 2 to 4 weeks..." Um, no, it doesn't. I still want this book, but I wanted to warn other people who might try to order this as a gift or something -- it may never come. :(

P.S. I had to give it a rating to post this, so I rated it at 4 stars since I haven't seen it yet (but it looks like it will be beautiful)!

Unbelievable it is how much beauty, intricacy, and bewilderment one can find in the small creatures around us. They fly and crawl past us, and seldom do some of us realize the magnificence of a world that goes by so easily unperceived. This book is a great request for us to pay more attention. To gaze more intently and appreciate what the hand of nature has spawned - beings equally or far more complex than ourselves. More so than we would like to admit! What bewilderment we would find if we could shrink to their size, wear their cloaks of colour, and fit into their universe....