A World in a Shell
Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions
$42.30
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2022
Summary
In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a Shell, Thom van Dooren offers a collection of snail stories from Hawai’i—once home to more than 750 species of land snails, almost two-thirds of which are now gone.
Following snail trails through forests, laboratories, museums, and even a military training facility, and meeting with scientists and Native Hawaiians, van Dooren expl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047029 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262047020 |
| Author: | Thom Van Dooren |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“Attentive, elegiac… Eschewing more obvious fauna, A World in a Shell makes a strong case for overcoming ‘geographical and taxonomic biases,’ noting that every species lost is a tragedy.”–Foreword Reviews
About The Author
Thom Van Dooren
Thom van Dooren is a field philosopher at the University of Sydney and the University of Oslo. He is the author of Flight Ways- Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction and The Wake of Crows- Living and Dying in Shared Worlds. Donna Haraway has called him “a leader in learning to learn without the tools of human exceptionalism.”
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