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The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 70 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nature in general. The translator explains in her foreword, "The young in heart and the pure in heart of whatever age will find themselves drawn to this incomparable story-teller, this reverent reveler of the awe-inspiring secrets of nature. The identity of the "Uncle Paul," who in this book and others of the series plays the story-teller's part, is not hard to guess; and the young people who gather about him to listen to his true stories from wood and field, from brook and hilltop, from distant ocean and adjacent millpond, are, without doubt, the author's own children, in whose companionship he delighted and whose education he conducted with wise solicitude." (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

Story Book of Science, The by Jean-Henri Fabre (1823 - 1915‪)‬ LibriVox

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The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 70 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nature in general. The translator explains in her foreword, "The young in heart and the pure in heart of whatever age will find themselves drawn to this incomparable story-teller, this reverent reveler of the awe-inspiring secrets of nature. The identity of the "Uncle Paul," who in this book and others of the series plays the story-teller's part, is not hard to guess; and the young people who gather about him to listen to his true stories from wood and field, from brook and hilltop, from distant ocean and adjacent millpond, are, without doubt, the author's own children, in whose companionship he delighted and whose education he conducted with wise solicitude." (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

    01 - The Six

    01 - The Six

    • 6 min
    02 - The Fairy Tale and the True Story

    02 - The Fairy Tale and the True Story

    • 6 min
    03 - The Building of the City

    03 - The Building of the City

    • 7 min
    04 - The Cows

    04 - The Cows

    • 6 min
    05 - The Sheepfold

    05 - The Sheepfold

    • 9 min
    06 - The Wily Dervish

    06 - The Wily Dervish

    • 6 min

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