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The Life of the Spider
Jean-Henri Fabre and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The Narbonne lycosa digs a burrow and guards her family with fierce devotion, while the banded epeira spins her wheel. Jean-Henri Fabre watches spiders build, hunt, and mother across these chapters. Tender, exact, and full of admiration for the eight-legged engineers. The great naturalist makes spiders sympathetic and endlessly interesting. Look into the burrow and the web with new respect. Meet the spinners.
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19 chapters
- 1THE LIFE OF THE SPIDER
- 2CHAPTER I: THE BLACK-BELLIED TARANTULA
- 3CHAPTER II: THE BANDED EPEIRA
- 4CHAPTER III: THE NARBONNE LYCOSA
- 5CHAPTER IV: THE NARBONNE LYCOSA: THE BURROW
- 6CHAPTER V: THE NARBONNE LYCOSA: THE FAMILY
- 7CHAPTER VI: THE NARBONNE LYCOSA: THE CLIMBING-INSTINCT
- 8CHAPTER VII: THE SPIDERS’ EXODUS
- 9CHAPTER VIII: THE CRAB SPIDER
- 10CHAPTER IX: THE GARDEN SPIDERS: BUILDING THE WEB
- 11CHAPTER X: THE GARDEN SPIDERS: MY NEIGHBOUR
- 12CHAPTER XI: THE GARDEN SPIDERS: THE LIME-SNARE
- 13CHAPTER XII: THE GARDEN SPIDERS: THE TELEGRAPH-WIRE
- 14CHAPTER XIII: THE GARDEN SPIDERS: PAIRING AND HUNTING
- 15CHAPTER XIV: THE GARDEN SPIDERS: THE QUESTION OF PROPERTY
- 16CHAPTER XV: THE LABYRINTH SPIDER
- 17CHAPTER XVI: THE CLOTHO SPIDER
- 18APPENDIX: THE GEOMETRY OF THE EPEIRA’S WEB
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