A World in a Shell by Thom van Dooren - ISBN: 9780262547345
Paperback
Hawaii’s disappearing snails reveal extinction’s impact on nature and culture.

A World in a Shell

Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    14 November 2023

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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 explores ong…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262547345
ISBN-10:0262547341
Author:Thom van Dooren
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:14 November 2023
Weight:386g
Dimensions:230mm x 143mm x 18mm
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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