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The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

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The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

Jean-Henri Fabre and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

372 pages~7 hr 25 min read28 chapters$4.99
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The glow-worm lights its lamp to attract, but first it must eat, and its meal is a snail it paralyzes with surgical calm. Jean-Henri Fabre watches beetles the way others watch drama: the living light, the hunting habits, the patient chemistry of the field. No naturalist ever made an insect feel more like a character. Turn the page and meet the neighbors underfoot.

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28 chapters

  1. 1THE GLOW-WORM
  2. 2AND OTHER BEETLES
  3. 3BOOKS BY J. HENRI FABRE
  4. 4THE GLOW-WORM
  5. 5AND OTHER BEETLES
  6. 6J. HENRI FABRE
  7. 7CONTENTS
  8. 8TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
  9. 9CHAPTER I
  10. 10CHAPTER II
  11. 11CHAPTER III
  12. 12CHAPTER IV
  13. 13CHAPTER V
  14. 14CHAPTER VI
  15. 15CHAPTER VII
  16. 16CHAPTER VIII
  17. 17CHAPTER IX
  18. 18CHAPTER X

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