Natural Wonders (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Classic Juvenile Natural History on Animals, Plants, Life Cycles, and the Wonders of Scientific ObservationBy Edwin Tenney Brewster
Length8h 1m
About this audiobook
Natural Wonders presents the physical and living world as a sequence of intelligible marvels, translating scientific observation into lucid, memorable prose. Brewster's method belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of popular natural history: precise without being technical, didactic without condescension, and animated by the conviction that wonder is the beginning of knowledge. Its subjects—drawn from animals, plants, earth processes, and the broader theatre of nature—are treated not as curiosities alone, but as signs of order, adaptation, and patient inquiry. Edwin Tenney Brewster was an American zoologist, educator, and science popularizer whose writing repeatedly sought to bring modern scientific understanding within reach of general readers, especially the young. Trained in the habits of biological observation, he wrote at a moment when evolutionary thought, laboratory science, and nature study were reshaping public education. Natural Wonders reflects this background: it joins the scientist's respect for evidence to the teacher's gift for explanation and the essayist's pleasure in clear expression. This book is warmly recommended to readers interested in the history of science communication, classic nature writing, or the intellectual formation of young observers. It rewards those who still believe that careful attention can renew astonishment.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length8 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 2, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2I How the Chicken Gets Inside the Egg
3II Some Other Sorts of Eggs
4III Little Fishes In The Brook
5IV Of Plants’ Eggs
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6V What Little Boys and Girls are Made Of
7VI More About Living Bricks
8VII How Much of Us Is Alive
9VIII How We Grow
10IX How We Grow Up
11X How We Grow Old
12XI Why We Grow At All
13XII Things That Do Not Have To Be Learned
14XIII Why We Like Certain Things
15XIV Animals’ Games
16XV Some Instincts of Chicks and Kittens
17XVI Certain Stupidities of Animals
18XVII How We Differ From The Animals
19XVIII Something More About Speech and Thinking
20XIX Why Most Of Us Are Right-Handed
21XX Where We Do Our Thinking
22XXI Where Some Of The Animals Do Their Thinking
23XXII What Plants Know
24XXIII What Plants Can Do
25XXIV Some Plant-Like Doings Of Animals
26XXV The Five Senses and The Other Five
27XXVI Eyes
28XXVII Seeing and Believing
29XXVIII Some Other Senses
30XXIX The Sight and Hearing Of Ants
31XXX Ants’ Noses
32XXXI Some Other Eyes and Ears
33XXXII Having Senses and Using Them
34XXXIII Seeing In The Mind’s Eye
35XXXIV Ear Minds and Others
36XXXV Living Automobiles
37XXXVI Air and Fuel
38XXXVII Men In Glass Boxes
39XXXVIII Of Sugar and Other Poisons
40XXXIX Snake Venoms and Others
41XL Of Measles and Rusty Nails
42XLI The Great War
43XLII More About The Great War
44XLIII Living Apothecary Shops
45XLIV What Becomes Of The Tadpole’s Tail
46XLV Nature’s Repair Shop
47XLVI Little Monsters
48XLVII How The Animals Keep Their Tools Sharp
49XLVIII Why The Blood Is Salt
50XLIX Horses’ Fingers
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