Les Champignons de Jean-Henri Fabre (Book)

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Les Champignons de Jean-Henri Fabre (Book) Très Very Good Condition, Very big Book in its Box – in French.

Mushrooms by Jean-Henri Fabre. Jean-Henri Fabre devoted seven years of his life to the study of the mushrooms he collected during his walks around the Ventoux. A brilliant observer of nature, he produced almost seven hundred watercolors in which one recognizes the precision of an excellent botanist and the sensitivity of an artist.
It was in 1955 that the boxes that contained them were opened for the first time. Here, two hundred and twenty plates are selected from this original group, following two criteria: representing all the species, and keeping only the watercolors whose artistic and scientific quality is indisputable. We thus find ourselves in the presence of a study which, published during Fabre’s lifetime, would no doubt have caused a sensation.
Abundantly illustrated with old documents, reports specially made on the places where Fabre lived, tables evoking the framework of his walks, the prefaces make us better know the thousand facets of this researcher as passionate as fascinating. The modern hero, the scientist, the mycologist, come alive before our eyes.

Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) is a man of science, a humanist, a naturalist, an eminent entomologist, a writer passionate about nature and a French poet.
He can be considered one of the precursors of ethology, the science of animal behavior, and ecophysiology.

His discoveries are held in high esteem in Russia, the United States, South Korea and especially in Japan where Jean-Henri Fabre is considered the accomplished model of the man of science and the man of letters combined and, as such, is on the teaching program of primary school. He is also known worldwide for his Entomological Memories, which have been translated into fifteen languages.