Insect Adventures
J. Henri Fabre
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J Henri Fabre wrote these insect studies, chosen from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos's English version of his Souvenirs Entomologiques. Louise Seymour Hasbrouck retold them for young people, and Elias Goldberg drew the plates. Dodd, Mead of New York issued the book in 1917. A motto from Maurice Maeterlinck heads it: there are no petty truths, only one truth seen in fragments.
The front matter tells Fabre's own hard road. At Avignon his fellow teachers, jealous of his packed lectures, nicknamed him the Fly and drove him from his house. Darwin called him the incomparable observer. France made him a knight of the Legion of Honour and offered him a prince's tutorship, which he refused for his country research.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | J. Henri Fabre |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 301 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |