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Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist, but is best known for his findings in the study of insects, and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Much of his enduring popularity is due to his engaging manner of writing about the lives of insects in biographical form. In The Story Book of Science the wonders of plant and animal life are shared by an adult in conversations with three children.

The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 70 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nature in general. The translator explains in her foreword, "The young in heart and the pure in heart of whatever age will find themselves drawn to this incomparable story-teller, this reverent reveler of the awe-inspiring secrets of nature. The identity of the "Uncle Paul," who in this book and others of the series plays the story-teller's part, is not hard to guess; and the young people who gather about him to listen to his true stories from wood and field,...

"The Secret of Everyday Things" by Jean-Henri Fabre provides simple explanations for children about basic materials, their use and impacts. Contents: Thread, Pins, Needles, Silk, Wool, Flax and Hemp, Weaving, Woolen Cloth, Moths, Napery, Calico, Dyeing and Printing, Dyestuffs, Heat-Conduction, Human Habitations, Clothing, Ashes - Potash, Soap, Fire, Matches, Wood and Charcoal, Coal and Coal-Gas, Combustion, Heating, Lighting, Kerosene Oil, Glass, Iron, Rust, Tin-Plating, Pottery, Coffee, Sugar, etc.

1879年，法布尔用积攒下来的钱，在小镇附近买了一处老旧民宅，他用当地的普罗托斯语给这居所起了个雅号——荒石园。这是一块荒芜的不毛之地，但却是昆虫钟爱的地方……1879年，法布爾用積攢下來的錢，在小鎮附近買了一處老舊民宅，他用當地的普羅托斯語給這居所起了個雅號——荒石園。這是一塊荒蕪的不毛之地，但卻是昆蟲鍾愛的地方……

Warmherzig und voller Lebensklugheit widmete sich Jean-Henri Fabre ein Leben lang der Beobachtung und Beschreibung der Insekten in ihrem Lebensraum. Dabei entstanden seine "Erinnerungen", ein literarisches Meisterwerk, eine gleichermaßen poetische wie genaue Naturbetrachtung und eine Liebeserklärung an die Insektenwelt. Die literarischen Gattungsbiographien zählen zu den schönsten und einfühlsamsten aber auch genauesten Tierbeobachtungen, die je geschrieben wurden.

Warmherzig und voller Lebensklugheit widmete sich Jean-Henri Fabre ein Leben lang der Beobachtung und Beschreibung der Insekten...

Warmherzig und voller Lebensklugheit widmete sich Jean-Henri Fabre ein Leben lang der Beobachtung und Beschreibung der Insekten...

Warmherzig und voller Lebensklugheit widmete sich Jean-Henri Fabre ein Leben lang der Beobachtung und Beschreibung der Insekten...