thirudevaram
Trapped in mist ***s
Very interesting, do you think it might be available at that price in Hong Kong? How otherwise might I get a copy from China?
Does this book have maps, ie is it possible for a non Chinese reader to work out which species known from Sichuan?
cheers
dave
Wow, I'd like to get my hands on that too.
I'm searching and all I can find is this
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/...nual+butterflies+china&sortby=17&an=chunsheng
A
Initially, I tried to find it in the Shanghai book store and Xinhua book store but they don't have and they could not locate it using the ISBN no as well. So, i went through some trouble and ordered it online(That's taobao, only in Chinese and they don't do overseas shipping).. So I'm not sure if you will find it any HK bookstore.
Eventhough, the illustrations are very elaborate, the book doesn't have distribution maps but the range is given in description. It took a while for me to memorize the province names in Chinese. It doesn't stop there, sometimes the range is mentioned as "South of Qinling mountains" , "South of Yangtze river" - these kind of range descriptions are often makes me frown for not pursuing to learn Mandarin.
There is also no mention of subspecies or i haven't figured that out yet. The illustrations are of samples collected from different provinces but i'm not sure that will qualify them as a diff ssp.
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