Fabre's Book of Insects (Adaptation)
Illustrator:
Edward Detmold
Mrs. Rudolph Stawell
Original title:
Souvenirs Entomologiques
Original author:
Jean Henri Fabre
Original language:
French
Translator:
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Publication:
1921 by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
Simultaneously published by:
Dodd, Mead & Company
Genre:
Nature
Pages:
271
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Mrs. Rudolph Stawell
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1883 - 1957British
Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold often worked together as well as separately to illustrate numerous books. They were... See more
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Reprinted in 1998 by Dover Publications
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Unabridged republication of the text of the work published by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1921.
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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