Jean-Henri Fabre watched insects as no one had before, and The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles shows why: the glow-worm’s surgical paralysis of snails, its living lantern, the burying beetles and dung-rollers, each observed in patient detail and written with irresistible warmth.
Darwin called him ‘an incomparable observer’; Victor Hugo called him the insects’ Homer. Download the free EPUB.