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The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 4

Pliny the Elder (23 - 79) and John S. White (1847 - 1922)

The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and mathematics to botany and precious stones. The book became a model for later encyclopaedias and gives a fascinating overview of the state of scientific knowledge almost 2000 years ago. This version of the Natural History (or, the "Pliny") has been adapted for a younger audience. This fourth volume contains Book VII (The Natural History of Birds) and Book VIII (The Various Kinds of Insects) out of a total of 9 books. - Summary by Foon

Genre(s): Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Reference, Science

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Bk. 7 Ch. 1 – The Ostrich	Foon	00:02:28
Play 02	Bk. 7 Ch. 2 – The Phoenix	Foon	00:03:39
Play 03	Bk. 7 Ch. 3 – The Eagle	Foon	00:09:41
Play 04	Bk. 7 Ch. 4 – The Vulture and the Hawk	Foon	00:07:38
Play 05	Bk. 7 Ch. 5 – The Crow, the Raven, and the Owl	Foon	00:04:43
Play 06	Bk. 7 Ch. 6 – The Woodpecker of Mars	Foon	00:03:22
Play 07	Bk. 7 Ch. 7 – The Peacock and the Rooster	Foon	00:06:19
Play 08	Bk. 7 Ch. 8 – The Goose	Foon	00:02:46
Play 09	Bk. 7 Ch. 9 – Cranes	Foon	00:02:30
Play 10	Bk. 7 Ch. 10 – Storks and Swans	Foon	00:03:33
Play 11	Bk. 7 Ch. 11 – Foreign Birds which Visit Us	Foon	00:04:47
Play 12	Bk. 7 Ch. 12 – Swallows	Foon	00:01:55
Play 13	Bk. 7 Ch. 13 – Birds which take their Departure from Us in Winter	Foon	00:06:35
Play 14	Bk. 7 Ch. 14 – The Nightingale	Foon	00:04:56
Play 15	Bk. 7 Ch. 15 – The Halcyons: the Halcyon Days that are Favorable to Navigation	Foon	00:02:43
Play 16	Bk. 7 Ch. 16 – The Instinctive Cleverness Displayed by Birds in the Construction of their Nests	Foon	00:03:14
Play 17	Bk. 7 Ch. 17 – The Acanthyllis and the Partridge	Foon	00:05:21
Play 18	Bk. 7 Ch. 18 – Pigeons	Foon	00:05:25
Play 19	Bk. 7 Ch. 19 – Different Modes of Flight and Progression in Birds	Foon	00:04:01
Play 20	Bk. 7 Ch. 20 – Strange and Fabulous Birds	C. Roxanne Maxwell	00:15:01
Play 21	Bk. 7 Ch. 21 – The Art of Cramming Poultry; Aviaries	C. Roxanne Maxwell	00:04:03
Play 22	Bk. 7 Ch. 22 – Peculiarities of Animals	C. Roxanne Maxwell	00:09:40
Play 23	Bk. 8 Ch. 1 – The Extreme Smallness of Insects	C. Roxanne Maxwell	00:05:00
Play 24	Bk. 8 Ch. 2 – Whether Insects Breathe, and Whether they have Blood	Rachel May Ferriman	00:04:12
Play 25	Bk. 8 Ch. 3 – Bees	Rachel May Ferriman	00:05:23
Play 26	Bk. 8 Ch. 4 – The Mode in which Bees Work	Rachel May Ferriman	00:08:15
Play 27	Bk. 8 Ch. 5 – The Mode of Government of the Bees	Rachel May Ferriman	00:04:07
Play 28	Bk. 8 Ch. 6 – Wasps and Hornets	Andrew Gaunce	00:02:04
Play 29	Bk. 8 Ch. 7 – The Silk-Worm	Andrew Gaunce	00:02:27
Play 30	Bk. 8 Ch. 8 – Spiders	Ruth P.	00:05:02
Play 31	Bk. 8 Ch. 9 – Locusts	Ruth P.	00:04:44
Play 32	Bk. 8 Ch. 10 – Ants	Ruth P.	00:04:08

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