Originally published in German as Schmetterlinge: Warum sie verschwinden and was das für uns bedeutet by Joseh H. Reichholf © 2018 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, München

      This English edition © 2021 by Polity Press

      The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International – Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).

      Excerpt from Vergängliche Spuren by Miki Sakamoto reproduced with permission of Verlag Kessel. © Verlag Kessel, Remagen 2014. All rights reserved by and controlled through Verlag Kessel. www.forestrybooks.com

      Excerpt from ‘Blauer Schmetterling’, from: Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke in 20 Bänden. Herausgegeben von Volker Michels. Band 10: Die Gedichte © Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2002. All rights reserved by and controlled through Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin.

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3981-9

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      Names: Reichholf, Josef, author.

      Title: The disappearance of butterflies / Josef H. Reichholf ; translated by Gwen Clayton. Other titles: Schmetterlinge. English

      Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2020] | Originally published in German as Schmetterlinge : Warum sie verschwinden and was das fur uns bedeutet by Joseh H. Reichholf 2018 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munchen. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020012872 (print) | LCCN 2020012873 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509539819 (epub) | ISBN 9781509539796 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509539796q(hardback) | ISBN 9781509539819q(epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Butterflies. | Butterflies--Ecology. | Butterflies--Conservation.

      Classification: LCC QL543 (ebook) | LCC QL543 .R4513 2020 (print) | DDC 595.78/9--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020012872 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020012873

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