Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature FROM THE PUBLISHER
In The Passionate Observer, Marlene McLoughlin's precise, luminous watercolors are paired with Jean Henri Fabre's classic text on insects, Souvenirs Entomologiques. An instant hit when it was published in France in 1879, Souvenirs Entomologiques has endured as a testament to our universal fascination with the smallest of creatures. McLoughlin's exquisite original paintings were created especially to illuminate this collection of clever, amusing, and provocative writings. Whether depicting the intricate texture of a butterfly's wings or the pale delicacy of a hummingbird's egg, Jean Henri Fabre and Marlene McLoughlin create a vivid world of discovery.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
A combination of contemporary watercolors by Marlene McLoughlin and nature writing by the 19th-century French naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre. McLoughlin's watercolors vary from detailed illustrations of Fabre's subjectsbirds, insects, flowers to landscapes showing the France in which Fabre worked. Fabre's writing is similarly varied: at one moment he is giving vivid descriptions of eggs and fungi, at the next he is telling stories about his grandmother or his theories on heredity. Fabre's writings are excerpts from his 1879 . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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