The Butterfly Suitcase - now available as a special edition for rediscovery! Hanns Zischler and illustrator Hanna Zeckau discovered an abandoned overseas suitcase at the Berlin Natural History Museum, filled to the brim with butterflies. Nearly eighteen thousand specimens from the Colombian highlands, each more beautiful than the last, collected and packed into hundreds of cigar boxes by the explorer Arnold Schultze. Zischler and Zeckau carefully and curiously unfold the papers in which the butterflies are wrapped, immersing themselves in the world of Arnold Schultze, reading his diaries, notes, and essays. They get to know an amazing researcher and writer who, through his keen powers of observation, spreads an almost contagious enthusiasm for exploring foreign countries, plants, and animals.