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Jean Henri Fabre Fabre'S Book of Insects (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- Fabre'S Book of Insects
- Title
- Fabre'S Book of Insects
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0486401529
- EAN
- 9780486401522
- ISBN
- 9780486401522
- Genre
- Home Garden & Pets
- Release Date
- 28/03/2003
- Release Year
- 2003
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 137mm
- Item Weight
- 209g
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Fabre's Book of Insects
- Item Height
- 215mm
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Topic
- Nature
- Item Width
- 137mm
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Beautiful, simply written observations about the beetle, cicada, praying mantis, glow-worm, wasp, grub, cricket, locust and other creatures, describing how they hunt, build nests, feed families, and more. Hailed by Darwin as The Homer of Insects, famed French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre (1823 1915) devoted hours of rapt attention to insects while they hunted, built nests, and fed their families. Working in Provence, in barren, sun-scorched fields inhabited by countless wasps and bees, he observed their intricate and fascinating world, recounting their activities in simple, beautifully written essays. This volume, based on translations of Fabre's Souvenirs Entomologiques, blends folklore and mythology with factual explanation. Fabre's absorbing account of the scarab beetle's existence, for example, begins with the ancient Egyptians' symbolic view of this busy creature, eventually leading to a careful discussion of its characteristic method of rolling a carefully sculpted ball of food to its den. Elsewhere, he discusses with infectious enthusiasm the physiologic secrets behind the luminosity of fireflies, the musical talents of the locust, the comfortable home of the field cricket, and the cannibalism of the pious-looking praying mantis, among other topics. These charmingly related stories of insect life are a rare combination of scientific study and literary classic that will delight entomologists, naturalists, and nature lovers alike.
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Dover Publications Inc.
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9780486401522
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Book Title
Fabre's Book of Insects
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Nature
Publication Year
2003
Number of Pages
128 Pages
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215mm
Item Width
137mm
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United States
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