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• Winner of The Orion Book Award 2011

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Beautifully lyrical. &ndash; The Boston Globe <br> Unique beyond imagination. Bizarre. Endlessly interesting, a book that cannot be categorized. This book insists you learn its unexpected facts because you cannot put it down&hellip;You will never forget having read this book. You will never forget where you put it either, since you have dog-eared it for displays of another astounding fact when your friends come to visit. &ndash; Decatur Daily <br> As Raffles shows our nearby neighbors to be at once dangerous and beautiful, common and incomprehensible, he refracts a world that is newly fascinating. &ndash;Audubonmagazine.com <br> Compulsively readable, equal parts anthropology, travel, philosophy, history and science&hellip; Insectopedia will stir your imagination. &ndash;valeaston.com, Plant Talk <br> As inventive and wide ranging and full of astonishing surprises as the vast insect world itself.&#160;Raffles&#160;takes us on a delirious journey, zooming in and out from the m

A collection of imaginative forays into what, for most readers, will be terra incognita. . . . Insectopedia qualifies as food for thought. . . . As inventive and wide ranging and full of astonishing surprises as the vast insect world itself. Raffles takes us on a delirious journey. -- The New York Times Impossible to categorize, wildly stimulating. . . . A disconcerting, fantastical, (multi-)eye-opening journey into another existence. -- The New York Times Book Review Vivid and fascinating. . . . This book will challenge your view of insects and make you see these wonderful creatures from a new perspective. -- New Scientist As Raffles shows our nearby neighbors to be at once dangerous and beautiful, common and incomprehensible, he refracts a world that is newly fascinating. -- Audubon Magazine (Editors' Choice) [A] big, beautiful testament to the glory of paying attention. -- The Boston Globe The coolest, most beautifully written book on bugs imaginable. -- San Francisco Chronicle Sings with scholarship, deft writing, and an authentic fascination with the six-legged creatures that have so long roamed the Earth. -- Seed Magazine Combines elements of science, history, travel and popular culture to form a sparkling whole, a wide-ranging and idiosyncratic survey of a world we all too often scorn or swat. . . . [Raffles] reminds us of the connections among all creatures, of the unfathomable mysteries that separate us, and of the fragility and resilience of life. -- The Providence Journal A revelation of the world of our fellow creatures . . . by a writer whose style is equal to his huge and strange task. -- Buffalo News (Editor's Choice) Unusual and most engaging. -- The Seattle Times Provocative. . . . Insectopedia opens up a can of worms and it's doubtful they can be herded back in. -- Santa Cruz Sentinel Lucid and often beautifully constructed prose. . . . We can't recommend it highly enough. -- Austin Chronicle The most readable book ever written about insects. -- The Stranger Gorgeous, fascinating, and thought-provoking. . . . A stunning, sensitively written, insightful book. . . . Raffles set out to write a book about how people learn something new about themselves through relationships with insects, and he succeeded admirably. -- Bookslut

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Hugh Raffles teaches anthropology at The New School. He is the author of In Amazonia: A Natural History, which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays, Granta, and Orion. Insectopedia is the recipient of a Special Award for Extending Ethnographic Understanding from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. In 2009, he received a Whiting Writers’ Award. He lives in New York City. Visit the author's website at: www.insectopedia.org.

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