| The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating | |
| Author: | Elisabeth Tova Bailey |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Ecology |
| Publisher: | Algonquin Books |
| Pub Date: | 2010 |
| Isbn: | 978-1565126060 |
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a 2010 non-fiction book written by Elisabeth Tova Bailey.
The book describes the author's observations of an individual land snail in the species Neohelix albolabris, which lived in a terrarium next to her while she was confined to bed through dysautonomia, mitochondrial disease and chronic fatigue syndrome.[1] The presence of the snail offered the author the opportunity to discover the peculiarities of its anatomy and behaviour, and helped her to cope with her own illness.[2] She also deepened the scientific aspects of her small guest's natural history, and became aware of the richness of its existence.[3] In the last page of the book Tova Bailey wishes terrestrial snails to survive to the ongoing Holocene extinction.
As far as late 2019 The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating has been translated into eleven languages.[7]
A short movie (15'), inspired by the book and directed by Elisabeth Tova Bailey herself, was presented in 2019 at the 8th edition of the Brattleboro Film Festival[8] and entered the official selection of the 2019 American Conservation Film Festival[9]