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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating de Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Autor Elisabeth Tova Bailey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2016
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris a common woodland snail.

While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of her own place in the world.

Intrigued by the snail s molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion, and courtship activities, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer, offering a candid and engaging look into the curious life of this underappreciated small animal.

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience, showing us how a small part of the natural world can illuminate our own human existence, while providing an appreciation of what it means to be fully alive.
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ISBN-13: 9781616206420
ISBN-10: 161620642X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Algonquin Books

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THE EARTHLY ADVENTURES OF A WOMAN AND A GASTROPOD

Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Natural History Literature

"Brilliant." --The New York Review of Books

"How interesting can a snail be? Entirely captivating, as it turns out. [Bailey] is a marvelous writer, and the marriage of science and poetic mysticism that characterizes this small volume is magical." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"[A] gem." --Susan Stamberg, NPR's Morning Edition

"Survival, resilience, and intellectual curiosity . . . Deeply moving. . . Extraordinary." --Literature and Medicine, the journal of the Institute for the Medical Humanities

"An exquisite meditation on the restorative connection between nature and humans . . . As richly layered as the soil she lays down in the snail's terrarium: loamy, potent, and regenerative." --The Huffington Post

"[A] small, quiet masterpiece, already destined to become a classic." --The Washington Times

Notă biografică

Caracteristici

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.

Cuprins

Prologue Part I - The Violet-Pot AdventuresField Violets Discovery Explorations Part II - A Green KingdomThe Forest Floor Life in a Microcosm Time and Territory Part III - JuxtapositionsThousands of Teeth Telescopic Tentacles Marvellous Spirals Secret Recipes Part IV - The Cultural LifeColonies of Hermits Midnight Leap A Snail's Thoughts Deep Sleep Part V - Love and MysteryCryptic Life Affairs of a Snail Bereft Offspring Part VI - Familiar TerritoryRelease Winter Snail Spring Rain Night Stars Epilogue Acknowledgements Appendix: Terraria Selected Sources

Recenzii

An astonishing book that portrays a woman who's incapacitated through illness; she's lying in bed, can't move, and someone brings her a flower in a pot and on it is a snail. It's about her relationship with that snail. The narrative content is limited, but what she does with it is incredible.
This slim, thoughtful book is a miniature masterpiece.
This book is an ideal present, an anecdotal influence, a reminder of what it is to be alive, and most of all, a warm-hearted story of a real person who found her path with the help of one of nature's smallest creations.
This book is beautifully written and is an amazing story of how the human spirit can be so strong, even in the most adverse of circumstances. It is a wonderful illustration of the healing power of nature.
A charming, delicate meditation on the meaning of life.
Bailey has involuntarily spent over 20 years coping with restricted movement. This intimate account of her snail-like life challenges readers to seek calm in their own lives.
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is an affirmation of the healing power of nature, revealing much of the world we miss in our busy daily lives, and how truly magical it is.
Lyrical, universal, deeply felt, and with an enormously generous soul, the gently told story grants readers a heightened appreciation for the ever-shrinking, ever-fascinating, secretive parts of our unkempt world.
If evidence were needed of the healing and enriching power of the natural world, Elisabeth Bailey's passionate, heart-warming and illuminating little book is definitive proof.
This charming little book tells us to slow down, take note and learn from all that's around us.
Single-handedly, this easy-to-read, absorbing book shares with us one woman's suffering, the power of nature to soothe, and an awarness of the natural world that we may previously have overlooked.
Beautifully observed nature study of a creature most would dismiss as just a step from the slug - by an American author who has M.E. We're invited to draw the obvious parallels and she pulls it off, elegantly.
Bailey's book is like a snail's shell, with an inexpectedly touching friendship lying at its centre. Spiralling outwards are meditations on time, purpose and purposelessness, evolution and human survival.
If evidence was needed of the healing and uplifting power of nature, then Elisabeth Tova Bailey's passionate, heart warming and illuminating writing offers real proof.
A rich meditation on snails and time and habitation and purpose at a time when all other life was out of reach.
With exquisite delicacy, Bailey doesn't mention the French enthusiasm for eating them with garlic butter. In fact, if the only time you think about snails is when you storm into the garden to wreak vengeance on them for ravaging your hostas, Bailey's beautifully written, brief memoir may change your views forever.
This book offers a very different perspective (of life) and is beautifully written and meticulously researched.
Once in a while a read comes along which transcends all expectations and Elisabeth Tove 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.
The writing [is] exquisitely tender and so full of insight. I will never look at a snail again in the same light.
Charming and absorbing.
A little gem . I commend [this] book to anyone who has ever had to spend more than a day in bed.
A beautiful little book which is written with a real gentleness and is very enjoyable to read.