Journal article
The Butterfly Effect
Josephine Chandler, Julianne Schultz (ed.), Ashley Hay (ed.)
Griffith Review | Griffith University and Text Publishing Company | Published : 2019
Abstract
Sometime in 1906, butterfly hunter Albert Stewart Meek disembarks from an old pearler named Hekla on the north-east coast of New Guinea. He unloads his provisions and tools of trade: killing bottles with cyanide of potassium for small insects, syringes with acetic acid for larger ones, non-rusting pins for setting his trophies, cork-lined collecting cases. He waves off the boat with instructions to the skipper to return for him in three months.