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A review by melissahoward
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
4.0
In the book, On the Banks of Plum Creek, we read:
The cloud was hailing grasshoppers. The cloud was grasshoppers. Their bodies hid the sun and made darkness. Their thin, large wings gleamed and glittered. The rasping whirring of their wings filled the whole air and they hit the ground and the house with the noise of a hailstorm.
It is one of many ‘testimonial’ excerpts that Jeffrey A. Lockwood includes in his book Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier.
It is a profound image that seems almost impossible to comprehend and leaves one wondering why we don’t experience such terrors today. Where did the grasshoppers go?
An Entomological Mystery
To read the rest of my review go to Suite101: http://historyphilosophybooks.suite101.com/article.cfm/locust_by_jeffrey_lockwood
The cloud was hailing grasshoppers. The cloud was grasshoppers. Their bodies hid the sun and made darkness. Their thin, large wings gleamed and glittered. The rasping whirring of their wings filled the whole air and they hit the ground and the house with the noise of a hailstorm.
It is one of many ‘testimonial’ excerpts that Jeffrey A. Lockwood includes in his book Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier.
It is a profound image that seems almost impossible to comprehend and leaves one wondering why we don’t experience such terrors today. Where did the grasshoppers go?
An Entomological Mystery
To read the rest of my review go to Suite101: http://historyphilosophybooks.suite101.com/article.cfm/locust_by_jeffrey_lockwood