The Life of the Spider

Jean-Henri Fabre (1823 - 1915)
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1865 - 1921)

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)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Animals, Nature

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 The Black-Bellied Tarantula Bryan Ness
00:49:11
Play 02 The Banded Epeira Bryan Ness
00:32:49
Play 03 The Narbonne Lycosa Magdalena
00:22:35
Play 04 The Narbonne Lycosa: The Burrow valli
00:46:38
Play 05 The Narbonne Lycosa: The Family Scott Carpenter
00:19:22
Play 06 The Narbonne Lycosa: The Climbing-instinct Scott Carpenter
00:16:30
Play 07 The Spiders’ Exodus Scott Carpenter
00:27:58
Play 08 The Crab Spider Doug Allison
00:20:10
Play 09 The Garden Spiders: Building The Web Magdalena
00:23:44
Play 10 The Garden Spiders: My Neighbour valli
00:43:35
Play 11 The Garden Spiders: The Lime-snare Esther
00:13:05
Play 12 The Garden Spiders: The Telegraph-wire Scott Carpenter
00:15:30
Play 13 The Garden Spiders: Pairing And Hunting valli
00:36:26
Play 14 The Garden Spiders: The Question Of Property Scott Carpenter
00:15:02
Play 15 The Labyrinth Spider Doug Allison
00:37:21
Play 16 The Clotho Spider James Christopher
00:24:45
Play 17 Appendix: The Geometry Of The Epeira’s Web James Christopher
00:19:45