Nature & Outdoors
Story Book of Science
Jean-Henri Fabre · narrated by LibriVox volunteers
10h 52m$1.99
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What if science felt like a story told by firelight? Jean-Henri Fabre, the great French naturalist, spins the workings of the world into tales a curious mind cannot put down. Uncle Paul answers the questions children ask and adults still wonder about: why thunder rumbles, how bees build, what a spider knows, where metals come from. Each chapter is a small doorway into wonder, written in the warm, patient voice of a born teacher from nineteenth-century France. Listen with your family or alone, and let ordinary things like a kettle, an ant, and a storm turn extraordinary again.
Inside this audiobook
80 chapters
- 1The Six6m
- 2The Fairy Tale and the Tr6m
- 3The Building of the City8m
- 4The Cows6m
- 5The Sheepfold9m
- 6The Wily Dervish6m
- 7A Numerous Family11m
- 8The Old Pear-Tree5m
- 9The Age of Trees8m
- 10The Length of Animal Life6m
- 11The Kettle4m
- 12The Metals5m
- 13Metal Plating7m
- 14Gold and Iron8m
- 15The Fleece5m
- 16Flax and Hemp7m
- 17Cotton7m
- 18Paper4m
- 19The Book5m
- 20Printing5m
- 21Butterflies8m
- 22The Big Eaters10m
- 23Silk7m
- 24The Metamorphosis6m
- 25Spiders10m
- 26The Epeira's Bridge10m
- 27The Spider's Web9m
- 28The Chase10m
- 29Venomous Insects10m
- 30Venom6m
- 31The Viper and the Scorpio8m
- 32The Nettle6m
- 33Processionary Caterpillar10m
- 34The Storm7m
- 35Electricity8m
- 36The Experiment with the C4m
- 37The Experiment with Paper3m
- 38Franklin and De Romas11m
- 39Thunder and the Lightning12m
- 40Effects of the Thunderbol4m
- 41Clouds10m
- 42The Velocity of Sound8m
- 43The Experiment with the B9m
- 44Rain6m
- 45Volcanoes7m
- 46Catania8m
- 47The Story of Pliny10m
- 48The Boiling Pot9m
- 49The Locomotive10m
- 50Emile's Observation7m
- 51A Journey to the End of t9m
- 52The Earth8m
- 53The Atmosphere10m
- 54The Sun13m
- 55Day and Night11m
- 56The Year and Its Seasons10m
- 57Belladonna Berries8m
- 58Poisonous Plants13m
- 59The Blossom10m
- 60Fruit6m
- 61Pollen9m
- 62The Bumble-Bee10m
- 63Mushrooms9m
- 64In the Woods7m
- 65The Orange-Agaric8m
- 66Earthquakes12m
- 67Shall We Kill Them Both?7m
- 68The Thermometer5m
- 69The Subterranean Furnace11m
- 70Shells11m
- 71The Spiral Snail8m
- 72Mother-of-Pearl and Pearl8m
- 73The Sea9m
- 74Waves Salt Seaweeds12m
- 75Running Waters9m
- 76The Swarm8m
- 77Wax8m
- 78The Cells11m
- 79Honey11m
- 80The Queen-Bee11m
