The Insecticides

Author: J.H. Fabre
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Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Features: The Insect Book is the masterwork of the outstanding French entomologist and writer J.H. Fabre, and also an immortal world classic. It blends the author's lifelong research achievements and life insights, observing insect nature through human perspectives, transforming the insect world into elegant prose that offers knowledge, interest, beauty, and thought to humans. This book follows the principle of faithfully translating the overall style and expressive features of the original French text, allowing Chinese readers to experience The Insect Book in its true form for the first time. Fabre once posed a question: "Is it worth suffering for the sake of survival?" The question of whether suffering is worthwhile has been answered by his own ninety-two years of life: facing "prejudice," accompanied by "poverty," fearless of "sacrifice," "offense," and "forgotten," all for the sake of the "truth." Seeking truth and exploring reality can be called "pursuing truth." Pursuing truth—this is the "Fabre spirit."