The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Audiobook by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/29/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 12-18-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 55 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Elisabeth Tova Bailey tells the intimate and inspiring story of her year-long encounter with a snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, she becomes an astute and amused observer of the snail's surprising nocturnal adventures as it lives in a flowerpot on her nightstand. Intrigued by the snails clear decision making abilities, hydraulic locomotion, mysterious courtship, and molluscan anatomy, Bailey takes the listener deep into the life of this tiny amazing animal. With wit and grace, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating recounts a remarkable journey of human and gastropod survival and resilience, and shows how the natural world illuminates our own human existence. Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Nonfiction, the John Burrough Medal Award for Natural History, and a National Outdoor Book Award. If you enjoyed Wesley the Owl, The Guest Cat, and Marley & Me, you'll enjoy this unique interspecies audiobook listen. ©2010 Elisabeth Tova Bailey (P)2014 Audible Inc. Critic Reviews: "Exquisite." ( The Huffington Post) "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." ( Star Tribune) "Renee Raudman's slow, gentle, almost hypnotic narration matches the meditative quality of this brief memoir." ( AudioFile)