Jean-Henri Fabre

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Rodolph Stawell

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. Rare volume will delight any naturalist.

Fabre's Book of Insects

Ricordi di un entomologo

CONTENTS:The Sacred BeetleThe Spanish CoprisThe OnthophagiA Barren PromiseA Dung-Beetle of the PampasThe Geotrupes: The Public HealthMinotaurus TyphoeusThe Two-Banded ScoliaThe Ringed CalicurgusThe Old WeevilsLeaf-RollersThe HalictiThe Languedocian Scorpion

The Life and Love of the Insect

Translated from the French by Florence Constable Bicknell. A wondrous introduction to the world of chemistry, designed specifically for younger readers with the intention of arousing their interest in science. Using everyday objects found around the house or in the local store, this book is set as a storyline in which an "Uncle Paul" teaches his two nephews the secrets behind building an artificial volcano; how to set metals on fire; the flammable properties of water; how to make a fire hotter; how to make soap bubbles rise; how to make invisible ink; the science behind effervescent wines, ciders, and beer; how plants feed on carbon, water, and air-and much, much more. From the translator's preface: "The personal, biographical interest of the book is not to be overlooked. The boys Jules and Emile are the author's own children; faithfully portrayed even to the names they bear. In his captivating fashion the man of vast learning makes himself at once teacher and comrade to his young hearers, and we learn that 'his chemistry lessons especially had a great success.' "With apparatus of his own devising and of the simplest kind he could perform a host of elementary experiments, the apparatus as a rule consisting of the most ordinary materials, such as a common flask or bottle, an old mustard-pot, a tumbler, a goose-quill or a pipe-stem. "A series of astonishing phenomena amazed their wondering eyes. He made them see, touch, taste, handle, and smell, and always 'the hand assisted the word, ' always 'the example accompanied the precept, ' for no one more fully valued the profound maxim, so neglected and misunderstood, that 'to see is to know.'"

The Wonder Book of Chemistry

Talks about Mountains and Rivers, Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Geysers and Other Things

This Earth of Ours

A popular teacher, chemist, physicist and botanist, Fabre is considered by many as the father of modern entomology whose engaging writing style has led to enduring popularity.

The Life of the Fly

With which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.

Insect Adventures by

Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques"

The Hunting Wasps

DigiCat vous présente cette édition spéciale de «Souvenirs entomologiques : études sur l'instinct et les moeurs des insectes», de Jean-Henri Fabre. Pour notre maison d'édition, chaque trace écrite appartient au patrimoine de l'humanité. Tous les livres DigiCat ont été soigneusement reproduits, puis réédités dans un nouveau format moderne. Les ouvrages vous sont proposés sous forme imprimée et sous forme électronique. DigiCat espère que vous accorderez à cette oeuvre la reconnaissance et l'enthousiasme qu'elle mérite en tant que classique de la littérature mondiale.

Souvenirs entomologiques : études sur l'instinct et les moeurs des insectes

Alexander Teixeira De Mattos

Modern Entomologic book of the early twentieth century by the physicist and botanist Jean-Henri Fabre. He is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology.

The Life of the Spider

"Fabre's Book of Insects" by Jean-Henri Fabre (translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography

Nevertheless, a few are to be feared; and foremost among these is the Malmignatte, the terror of the Corsican peasantry. I have seen her settle in the furrows, lay out her web and rush boldly at insects larger than herself; I have admired her garb of black velvet speckled with carmine-red; above all, I have heard most disquieting stories told about her. Around Ajaccio and Bonifacio, her bite is reputed very dangerous, sometimes mortal. The countryman declares this for a fact and the doctor does not always dare deny it. In the neighbourhood of Pujaud, not far from Avignon, the harvesters speak with dread of Theridion lugubre, first observed by Léon Dufour in the Catalonian mountains; according to them, her bite would lead to serious accidents. The Italians have bestowed a bad reputation on the Tarantula, who produces convulsions and frenzied dances in the person stung by her. To cope with 'tarantism, ' the name given to the disease that follows on the bite of the Italian Spider, you must have recourse to music, the only efficacious remedy, so they tell us. Special tunes have been noted, those quickest to afford relief. There is medical choreography, medical music. And have we not the tarentella, a lively and nimble dance, bequeathed to us perhaps by the healing art of the Calabrian peasant?

The Life Of The Spider

Informal Talks with the Children

The Secret of Everyday Things

The Story-book of Science

mit Beitr. von Julia Voss und Clemens J. Setz

Erinnerungen eines Insektenforschers

A wonderful introduction to common farm animals and life in the countryside for young readers. Written as a grandfather talking to his family this book is full of beautiful imagery and information. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Jean-Henri Fabre

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