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1 volume (unpaged) ; colour illustrations ; 25 cm.

'This big, beautiful butterfly has won people's hearts the world over. The way a single specimen teeters on the merest of leaf-ends to place its egg, how the hatchling caterpillar doggedly demolishes its host plant, how later it quivers and folds itself up inside a glittering jewel-casing that appears by magic before our very eyes ... and then the emergence of a completely transformed winged creature, a creature of stunning saturated hues, a creature that floats and lurches mid-air'--Back cover.