Jean Henri Fabre

Fabre's Book of Insects (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486320113
• Artikelnr.: 39866619

Inhaltsangabe

Publisher's Note I My Work and My Workshop II The Sacred Beetle III The
Cicada IV The Praying Mantis V The Glow-Worm VI A Mason-Wasp VII The
Psyches VIII The Self-Denial of the Spanish Copris IX Two Strange
Grasshoppers X Common Wasps XI The Adventures of a Grub XII The Cricket
XIII The Sisyphus XIV The Capricorn XV Locusts XVI The Anthrax Fly

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