The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Wildlife
- Date of Publication 3 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781399418997
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 198x129 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations Small chapter illustrations 700
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Long description:
'Fabulous, a triumph, and it will remain a favourite forever.' CHRIS PACKHAM
'A miniature masterpiece.' THE INDEPENDENT
'Charming and absorbing.' THE TIMES
In celebration of its fifteen year anniversary, and including a new foreword by Helen Macdonald, this multi-award winning account of a close encounter with nature will delight readers everywhere.
While an illness keeps her bedridden, Elisabeth Tova Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence in a flowerpot alongside her bed. She enters the rhythm of life of this mysterious creature, and comes to a greater understanding of her own confined place in the world. In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, she shares the inspiring and intimate story of her connection with Neohelix albolabris - a common woodland snail.
Intrigued by the snail's world - from its strange anatomy to its mysterious courtship activities - she becomes a fascinated and amused observer of the snail's curious life. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating reveals how much of the natural world we overlook in our busy daily lives, while affirming the extraordinary life of even the tiniest of species.
A remarkable journey of survival and resilience, this beautiful book shows how a small part of the natural world can illuminate our own human existence and deepen our appreciation of what it means to be fully alive.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Helen Macdonald
Prologue
Part I - The Violet-Pot Adventures
Field Violets
Discovery
Explorations
Part II - A Green Kingdom
The Forest Floor
Life in a Microcosm
Time and Territory
Part III - Juxtapositions
Thousands of Teeth
Telescopic Tentacles
Marvellous Spirals
Secret Recipes
Part IV - The Cultural Life
Colonies of Hermits
Midnight Leap
A Snail's Thoughts
Deep Sleep
Part V - Love and Mystery
Cryptic Life
Affairs of a Snail
Bereft
Offspring
Part VI - Familiar Territory
Release
Winter Snail
Spring Rain
Night Stars
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Appendix: Terraria
Selected Sources
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