The Life of the Spider
by J. Henri Fabre
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The Life of the Spider is a volume in Jean-Henri Fabre's Souvenirs Entomologiques, in which he shares fifty years of careful observation. He re-acquaints us with the most everyday insects, inspiring a new interest, awareness and understanding in the reader. This volume concerns spiders..
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- 1912
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- The spider has a bad name: to most of us, she represents an odious, noxious animal, which every one hastens to crush under foot.
Preface: Orange and Serignan, the latter a little Provencal village that should be as widely celebrated as Maillane, have of late yars rendered honour to a man whose brow deserves to be girt with a double and radiant crown.
Introduction: In few parts of the world is the spider fauna better known that it is in France. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Nothing tells us that science will not one day turn the suspicion suggested by the Spider into an established truth and a fundamental theory of physiology.
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