Story Book of Science: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Story Book of Science, credited to Jean-Henri Fabre, 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 The Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre. (Translated by Florence Bicknell.) Read in English by Aiden Herrera; Frances Brown; Greg Giordano; Jill Engle; johnh1803; Kara Shallenberg; Kevin W. Davidson; Larry Wilson; Linda Velwest; Mike Pelton; Sharon; Susan Morin; WoollyBee The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 80 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nature in general. The translator explains in her foreword, "The young in heart and the pure in heart of whatever age will find themselves drawn to this incomparable story-teller, this reverent reveler of the awe-inspiring secrets of nature. The identity of the "Uncle Paul," who in this book and others of the series plays the story-teller's part, is not hard to guess; and the young people who gather about him to listen to his true stories from wood and field, from brook and hilltop, from distant ocean and adjacent millpond, are, without doubt, the author's own children, in whose companionship he delighted and whose education he conducted with wise solicitude." (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Story Book of Science
• Author credits: Jean-Henri Fabre
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 80
• Listed recording duration: 10:51:31

Catalogue topics

• nature
• children
• science
• insects
• bugs

Opening tracks: first 24 of 80

1. 01 - The Six — 6:19
2. 02 - The Fairy Tale and the True Story — 6:25
3. 03 - The Building of the City — 7:43
4. 04 - The Cows — 6:21
5. 05 - The Sheepfold — 9:10
6. 06 - The Wily Dervish — 6:15
7. 07 - A Numerous Family — 11:06
8. 08 - The Old Pear-Tree — 4:53
9. 09 - The Age of Trees — 8:23
10. 10 - The Length of Animal Life — 5:57
11. 11 - The Kettle — 3:58
12. 12 - The Metals — 4:54
13. 13 - Metal Plating — 6:40
14. 14 - Gold and Iron — 7:59
15. 15 - The Fleece — 4:39
16. 16 - Flax and Hemp — 7:08
17. 17 - Cotton — 6:57
18. 18 - Paper — 3:50
19. 19 - The Book — 4:52
20. 20 - Printing — 4:48
21. 21 - Butterflies — 8:23
22. 22 - The Big Eaters — 9:40
23. 23 - Silk — 7:21
24. 24 - The Metamorphosis — 6:27

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