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Cover: 9781900322911 | The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating | Elisabeth Tova Bailey | Buch | 2010

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Beschreibung

The delightful account of how a close connection with nature brought joy to a woman incapacitated through illness.

While an illness keeps her bedridden, Elisabeth Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence in a terrarium 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 close encounter 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 is an affirmation of the healing power of nature, revealing how much of the world we miss in our busy daily lives, and how truly magical it is.

A remarkable journey of survival and resilience, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 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.

Über den Autor

Elisabeth Tova Bailey is a writer whose essays and short stories have been published in the Missouri Review, Northwest Review, and the Sycamore Review. She has 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.

Zusammenfassung

Multi-award winning, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is winner of the 2010 John Burroughs Medal, the 2010 Natural History Literature category of the National Outdoor Book Award (joint award) and the 2012 non-fiction category of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Biographien
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	208
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781900322911
ISBN-10:	1900322919
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Bailey, Elisabeth Tova
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	182 x 138 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.09.2010
Gewicht:	0,322 kg

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