Fabre’s essays from the Souvenirs Entomologiques follow the sacred beetle rolling its ball of dung, shaping the pear in which its larva grows, and the Minotaur beetle digging its deep family burrow, along with other insects he watched for decades in his fields and harmas in Provence. Observation, experiment and humour run together on every page.
Natural history written with a storyteller’s gift, in Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’s admired translation. Download the free EPUB.