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First Published:
Feb 2002, 480 pages
Paperback:
Jan 2003, 480 pages
Gregor’s first book, chosen right from Amadeus Ernst Hoffnung’s glass-enclosed bookcase, was Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim’s Zoognosia: Tabulis synopticis illustrata, in usum praelectionum Academiae Imperialis Medico-Chiurgicae Mosquensis, an immense leather-bound volume, with tables and illustrations of every known species of animal. He wanted to make sure he had something unique to offer.
Reprinted from Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin by permission of BlueHen Books, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. Copyright © 2002, Marc Estrin. All rights reserved. This excerpt, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
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