Life of the Spider
Jean-Henri Fabre
1912
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Meet the most misunderstood craftsman in your garden. Fabre, the legendary observer of insects, spent years watching spiders spin, hunt, court, and mother, and reports it all with the wonder of a man at a great theater. You will discover the engineering of the web, the patience of the huntress, and prose so vivid that readers forget they ever shuddered. Nature writing that reads like drama. Sample a chapter and look closer.
17 chapters
- 1The Black-Bellied Tarantula49m
- 2The Banded Epeira33m
- 3The Narbonne Lycosa23m
- 4The Narbonne Lycosa: The Burrow47m
- 5The Narbonne Lycosa: The Family19m
- 6The Narbonne Lycosa: The Climbing Instinct17m
- 7The Spider's Exodus28m
- 8The Crab Spider20m
- 9The Garden Spiders - Building The Web24m
- 10The Garden Spiders: My Neighbour44m
- 11The Garden Spiders: The Lime-snare13m
- 12The Garden Spiders: The Telegraph Wire16m
- 13The Garden Spiders: Pairing And Hunting36m
- 14The Garden Spider: The Question of Property15m
- 15The Labyrinth Spider37m
- 16The Clotho Spider25m
- 17Appendix20m
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