--- product_id: 11212550 title: "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating" price: "$8.22" currency: USD in_stock: false reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/11212550-the-sound-of-a-wild-snail-eating store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating **Price:** $8.22 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - **How much does it cost?** $8.22 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/11212550-the-sound-of-a-wild-snail-eating) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Audible Audio Edition): Elisabeth Tova Bailey, Renee Raudman, Audible Studios: Books Review: A Favorite Book! - Very informative and amazing how this snail is intricately created! A great true story of wonder! Review: Quick but powerful read on the author's recovery and the life of a snail - The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4 What I thought I was going to be reading: I read this at the same time I began listening to another similarly themed nature memoir, “H is for Hawk.” I have not read any other nature memoirs, so I don’t have much of a background for the genre itself. I do, however, tend to enjoy personal memoirs, especially ones with emotional turmoil and grief. I saw that this was a rather quick read, so I downloaded the e-book and started reading. What I actually read: The book focuses on one woman’s journey to some semblance of recovery after experiencing a debilitating international infection that left her almost all the way paralyzed. The narrator receives a pet snail from a friend while she is at home on bed rest. The chapters switch from the author’s observations of the snail to actual scientific explanations of snails as a species to stories of the author’s illness and recovery. The author finds comfort in her observations of the snail, as she fights through mental and physical isolation. What to expect: This memoir offers a nice balance of scientific description on snails and a personal narrative of the author’s life and recovery. This was a light read, with chapters being only a few pages long. I enjoyed learning about snails and their habits and how the author weaves her story into her observations of her companion snail. ## Images ![The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91GSCJhtRDL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Favorite Book! *by D***L on April 12, 2026* Very informative and amazing how this snail is intricately created! A great true story of wonder! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Quick but powerful read on the author's recovery and the life of a snail *by A***N on February 28, 2017* The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4 What I thought I was going to be reading: I read this at the same time I began listening to another similarly themed nature memoir, “H is for Hawk.” I have not read any other nature memoirs, so I don’t have much of a background for the genre itself. I do, however, tend to enjoy personal memoirs, especially ones with emotional turmoil and grief. I saw that this was a rather quick read, so I downloaded the e-book and started reading. What I actually read: The book focuses on one woman’s journey to some semblance of recovery after experiencing a debilitating international infection that left her almost all the way paralyzed. The narrator receives a pet snail from a friend while she is at home on bed rest. The chapters switch from the author’s observations of the snail to actual scientific explanations of snails as a species to stories of the author’s illness and recovery. The author finds comfort in her observations of the snail, as she fights through mental and physical isolation. What to expect: This memoir offers a nice balance of scientific description on snails and a personal narrative of the author’s life and recovery. This was a light read, with chapters being only a few pages long. I enjoyed learning about snails and their habits and how the author weaves her story into her observations of her companion snail. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Have you heard a snail eating? *by B***E on February 14, 2012* The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating This little book of 184 pages I digested at one sitting. I couldn't put it down. From the opening quote of Florence Nightingale that "A small pet is often an excellent companion" to the farewell cameo from "Snails and Their Houses", 1888 about love-making among snails (sorry, but you will have to read the book yourself to find what was said there) the narrative held me spellbound. I thought I knew a good deal about snails, but this little book opened my eyes to a whole new world of discovery about terrestrial snail behaviour. This is a true story. The author, Elisabeth Tova Bailey, was confined to bed with a debilitating and fluctuating chronic illness that she has fought for over two decades. During one year of this time she became intrigued with the behaviour of a snail that had taken up residence in a small potted plant that a friend had brought her as a present and which was placed next to her bed. Her fascination in the snail's midnight wanderings and reactions to small morsels of different foods introduced into its environment makes for fascinating reading. We are taken on a journey of discovery that includes observations of a hole that appeared overnight in an envelope she had propped against the base of a lamp. How could a hole - a square hole - appear in an envelope over-night? Then she thought about the nocturnal activ-ity of her snail and reasoned that it must have some kind of teeth, "and it wasn't shy about using them". Intrigued to learn more, she offered the snail some real food, some withered blossoms, and stayed awake over several evenings making observations with her torch. In this way she introduces the reader to what we as malacologists know as the radulae. But she goes further with her observations, further than most of us have gone. She listened carefully and could hear it eating! "The tiny, intimate sound of the snail's eating gave me a distinct feeling of compan-ionship and shared space.....The snail and I were both living in altered landscapes not of our choosing; I figured that we shared a sense of loss and displace-ment....After weeks of round-the-clock companion-ship, there was no doubt about the relationship: the snail and I were officially cohabiting...Whereas the energy of my human visitors wore me out, the snail inspired me". Wanting the snail to have a safer and more natural home she later moved it from the flow-erpot into a fresh terrarium where it thrived on por-tobello mushrooms and hatched its offspring. And so we learn about snail courtship and spiral mating, its sophisticated method of scent tracking, "the mac-romolecular architecture of molluscan mucus", tele-scopic tentacles, snail shell spiral assymetry, and more. Eventually, all the snails were returned to their native habitat. Elisabeth Bailey made her snail obser-vations for over a year but continued her research for several more years as is evidenced by the valuable list of Selected Sources (books and articles for fur-ther reading) provided at the end of the book. I would venture to say that few of us have heard the sound of a wild snail eating. Now you can. The author has a web site (...) where she has posted a 4 min 30sec YouTube video that al-lows you to view and listen to the sound of a snail eating ! I recommend you buy two copies of this little book; one to read yourself and one to pass on to someone who does not even LIKE snails. 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