

The Wonder Book of Chemistry
By Jean-Henri Fabre. Translated from the French by Florence Constable Bicknell. A wondrous introduction to the world of chemistry, designed…

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
By John Muir. A fascinating autobiography of John Muir (1838–1914)—founder and first president of the Sierra Club, America’s oldest, largest,…

The Life of the Spider
By Jean-Henri Fabre. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, and with a preface…