Neotropical "Blues"

Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius (Paperback) by Kurt Johnson, Steve Coates

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Schaum Outline Series (April 2001)
ISBN: 0071373306

"Part biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, and part scientific detective story, Nabokov's Blues explores far-reaching questions of biogeography, evolution, and the worldwide crisis in biodiversity­­as well as the rich and varied place butterflies hold in Nabokov's fiction."

"Nabokov's [1945] paper Notes on Neotropical Plebejinae is the key in the reassessment of his position in science. It was a pioneering classification of the Latin American Polyommatini, a diverse group of Blue butterflies with members from the tip of Chile to the Caribbean. This paper established a broad framework of genera ..."