The Life of the Spider
Jean-Henri Fabre
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Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras. In 1852, he taught at the lycée in Avignon. (Summary from Wikipedia) (7 hr 44 min)
Chapters
The Black-Bellied Tarantula | 49:11 | Read by Bryan Ness |
The Banded Epeira | 32:49 | Read by Bryan Ness |
The Narbonne Lycosa | 22:35 | Read by Magdalena |
The Narbonne Lycosa: The Burrow | 46:38 | Read by valli |
The Narbonne Lycosa: The Family | 19:22 | Read by Scott Carpenter |
The Narbonne Lycosa: The Climbing-instinct | 16:30 | Read by Scott Carpenter |
The Spiders’ Exodus | 27:58 | Read by Scott Carpenter |
The Crab Spider | 20:10 | Read by Doug Allison |
The Garden Spiders: Building The Web | 23:44 | Read by Magdalena |
The Garden Spiders: My Neighbour | 43:35 | Read by valli |
The Garden Spiders: The Lime-snare | 13:05 | Read by Esther |
The Garden Spiders: The Telegraph-wire | 15:30 | Read by Scott Carpenter |
The Garden Spiders: Pairing And Hunting | 36:26 | Read by valli |
The Garden Spiders: The Question Of Property | 15:02 | Read by Scott Carpenter |
The Labyrinth Spider | 37:21 | Read by Doug Allison |
The Clotho Spider | 24:45 | Read by James Christopher |
Appendix: The Geometry Of The Epeira’s Web | 19:45 | Read by James Christopher |
Reviews
the text can be quite hard to understand at times
A LibriVox Listener
I recommend this for older students.The chapters are also lenghtly,I do think it is a very no educational book though.
hard to understand
a tiered student
I can’t understand most of this. I think it’s probably very educational:) I recommend this to anyone who is bilingual.
nice title
Jacobsen’s
This is my homeschool book and I love this book but only some chapters 😾😻
Pasquale
A brilliant description of his experiments. Dramatic, engaging, witty. Wonderful.
Might be helpful for some cheese board lover
A LibriVox Listener
I am not learning much from it, perhaps if the chapters were shorter and more clear I would like this more. I would put this on the "slightly helpful but at the same time annoying for those who don't like spiders" category
grifinder
🕷🕸last night I was so happy to have listened to this book 📚!