The sound of a wild snail eating
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova2025
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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.
Main title:
The sound of a wild snail eating / Elisabeth Tova Bailey.
Author:
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova, author
Edition:
Anniversary edition.
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2025.
Collation:
192 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.
ISBN:
9781399418997 (hbk)
Dewey class:
594.38
LC class:
SF459.S48
Local class:
594.38
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4211968