Notorious Butterfly Thief by Jessica Weart, I wasn't very excited. A book
about butterfly collectors, how exciting can that be? When I think butterfly
collectors, I think of an uptight old man, passively smoking a pipe, listening
to classical music, nothing exciting. Turns out lepidopterists, butterfly
collectors, aren't the boring types I thought they were. Butterfly collecting
can become a passionate, expensive obsession. Some rare butterflies are valued
over 30,000 dollars, and there have been instances where collectors have
risked it all in order to obtain a unique butterfly for their collection.
Actually, I found out there are famous lepidopterists, including the
controversial writer of Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov. In Winged Obsession, Weart
attempts to explore this obsession, by following the true story of the
"capture" of the world's most infamous butterfly dealer, Yoshi Kojima. The
story is the epitome of cat and mouse, (or should I say butterfly and net),
starring United States Fish and Wildlife agent Ted Newcomer and butterfly
master smuggler Yoshi Kojima. Kojima considers himself the Indiana Jones of
butterflies, and had been able to elude wildlife protection for years ...
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