Insect Adventures: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Insect Adventures, credited to Jean-Henri Fabre; Louise Seymour Hasbrouck Zimm, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Insect Adventures by Jean-Henri Fabre; Louise Seymour Hasbrouck Zimm. (Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.) Read in English by AnnaLisa Bodtker; laurencetrask; JMGaul; shibe; Zarina Silverman; Kirk Hendrick; realisticspeakers; J. M. Smallheer; Kathrine Engan; K.F. Armstrong; Devorah Allen; Britanie Long; Michele Fry This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for children. It's made up of first-person narratives, and gives us a close-up peep into the world of insects, including bees, wasps, worms, beetles, moths, and spiders, to name a few. When Fabre first published this work, as the Preface indicates, he was criticized by some scientists in his field for writing a scientific book that was "too interesting." - Summary by Devorah Allen

Recording facts

• Recording title: Insect Adventures
• Author credits: Jean-Henri Fabre; Louise Seymour Hasbrouck Zimm
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 5:52:23

Catalogue topics

• nature
• children
• science
• insects
• spiders
• worms
• biology
• bees

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Preface — 8:03
2. 01 - My First Pond — 16:28
3. 02 - The Caddis-Worm — 7:49
4. 03 - The Mason-Bees — 16:12
5. 04 - Bees, Cats and Red Ants — 16:57
6. 05 - The Mining Bees — 19:57
7. 06 - The Leaf-Cutting Bees — 7:45
8. 07 - The Cotton-Bees and Resin-Bees — 9:10
9. 08 - The Hairy Sand-Wasps — 15:12
10. 09 - The Wasp and the Cricket — 9:04
11. 10 - The Fly-Hunting Wasp — 13:41
12. 11 - Parasites — 9:35
13. 12 - Fly Scavengers — 2:51
14. 13 - The Pine Caterpillar — 38:05
15. 14 - The Cabbage Caterpillar — 8:02
16. 15 - The Great Peacock Moths — 5:07
17. 16 - The Truffle-Hunting Beetle — 6:49
18. 17 - The Boy Who Loved Insects — 32:16
19. 18 - The Banded Spider — 13:07
20. 19 - The Tarantula — 33:25
21. 20 - The Clotho Spider — 8:23
22. 21 - The Spiders’ Telegraph-Wire — 5:58
23. 22 - The Crab Spider — 12:45
24. 23 - The Labyrinth Spider — 12:31

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