The Life of the Spider


Lu par LibriVox Volunteers

(3.3 stars; 31 reviews)

Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras. In 1852, he taught at the lycée in Avignon. (Summary from Wikipedia) (7 hr 44 min)

Chapitres

The Black-Bellied Tarantula 49:11 Lu par Bryan Ness
The Banded Epeira 32:49 Lu par Bryan Ness
The Narbonne Lycosa 22:35 Lu par Magdalena
The Narbonne Lycosa: The Burrow 46:38 Lu par valli
The Narbonne Lycosa: The Family 19:22 Lu par Scott Carpenter
The Narbonne Lycosa: The Climbing-instinct 16:30 Lu par Scott Carpenter
The Spiders’ Exodus 27:58 Lu par Scott Carpenter
The Crab Spider 20:10 Lu par Doug Allison
The Garden Spiders: Building The Web 23:44 Lu par Magdalena
The Garden Spiders: My Neighbour 43:35 Lu par valli
The Garden Spiders: The Lime-snare 13:05 Lu par Esther
The Garden Spiders: The Telegraph-wire 15:30 Lu par Scott Carpenter
The Garden Spiders: Pairing And Hunting 36:26 Lu par valli
The Garden Spiders: The Question Of Property 15:02 Lu par Scott Carpenter
The Labyrinth Spider 37:21 Lu par Doug Allison
The Clotho Spider 24:45 Lu par James Christopher
Appendix: The Geometry Of The Epeira’s Web 19:45 Lu par James Christopher

Critiques

the text can be quite hard to understand at times


(3 stars)

I recommend this for older students.The chapters are also lenghtly,I do think it is a very no educational book though.


(5 stars)

A brilliant description of his experiments. Dramatic, engaging, witty. Wonderful.

hard to understand


(1.5 stars)

I can’t understand most of this. I think it’s probably very educational:) I recommend this to anyone who is bilingual.

nice title


(2.5 stars)

This is my homeschool book and I love this book but only some chapters 😾😻

Some bad readers


(3 stars)

Some readers are great but also the chapters are very long so it’s hard to understand some of the parts, but good job to the readers who can actually read.and to the people who can’t read get a different job. Otherwise, it was pretty good book and so there was a lot of great experiments in it 👌🏽👌🏾

Might be helpful for some cheese board lover


(2.5 stars)

I am not learning much from it, perhaps if the chapters were shorter and more clear I would like this more. I would put this on the "slightly helpful but at the same time annoying for those who don't like spiders" category

A lot of terrible readers👀🤔🧐🤨


(3 stars)

Like I said a lot of terrible readers can’t say a bunch of stuff right can’t understand a lot of them so very mad about that we need to get 👍good readers who can actually read English!😅😡😤🤢🤮😵🫩


(5 stars)

🕷🕸last night I was so happy to have listened to this book 📚!