Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (eBook, ePUB)

Anniversary Edition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399419024
• Artikelnr.: 74973568

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Tova Bailey's essays and short stories have been published in the Missouri Review, Northwest Review and the Sycamore Review. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal (US) and the William Saroyan International Prize for Nonfiction, she has also received several Pushcart Prize nominations and the essay on which this book is based received a Notable Essay Listing in Best American Essays. She lives in Maine, US.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

Once in a while a read comes along which transcends all expectations and Elisabeth Tova Bailey's The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating was just such a book for me. ... Fabulous, a triumph, and it will remain a favourite forever.