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Fabre's Book of Insects
by Jean Henri Fabre Author
Great French entomologist’s charming essays on insect life combine scientific rigor with the style of a literary classic. Beautifully written passages reveal the intricate, fascinating worlds of the beetle, cicada, praying mantis, glow-worm, wasp, grub, cricket, locust, and other creatures as they hunt, build nests, feed families, and more.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0486401529
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 16
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Copyright
- 1998
Chapters
- 1 My Work and My Workshop
- 2 The Sacred Beetle
- 3 The Cicada
- 4 The Praying Mantis
- 5 The Glow-Worm
- 6 A Mason-Wasp
- 7 The Psyches
- 8 The Self-Denial of the Spanish Copris
- 9 Two Strange Grasshoppers
- 10 Common Wasps
- 11 The Adventures of a Grub
- 12 The Cricket
- 13 The Sisyphus
- 14 The Capricorn
- 15 Locusts
- 16 The Anthrax Fly
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