Insect adventures by jeanhenri fabre and louise hasbrouck zimm. His curiosity and thirst for knowledge is truly inspiring. An illustration of a computer application window wayback machine an illustration of an open book. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading fabres book of insects. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app.
Hailed by darwin as the homer of insects, famed french entomologist jean henri fabre 18231915 devoted hours of rapt attention to insects while they hunted, built nests, and fed their families. Its too bad that more science texts arent written like this. Price new from used from hardcover, 1935 please retry. Fabres book of insects kindle edition by fabre, jean henri. Fabre insects in mind a total of 10, children s version of the color pictures chinese language 10 book set highedited by suzanne, south korea kim huijung, lee mingshu translation published by beijing science and technology publishing house. The way he uses simple words to describe insects lives and the enthusiasm poured into those words often made me smile while reading the book. The content is a little dated, but the book is beautifully written. The storybook of science jeanhenri fabre 642 downloads. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Fabres book of insects and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. If you have already lost track of whether fabre is talking about insects or. I had wanted to read this book since i was thirteen, some 45 years ago. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
Fabre s fascination for insects and the nature itself started at a young age and never stopped despite the hardships he faced in life. Condensed and beautifully illustrated english version of the ten volume series on insects by jeanhenri fabre in which he brought out the beauty and drama in the lives of creatures that had hitherto been regarded with horror, if regarded at all. Books by fabre, jeanhenri sorted by popularity project gutenberg. Fabres book of insects by fabre, jeanhenri, 18231915.
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