Acknowledgements
If you enjoyed a particular entry in The Book of Snails, find from where it was taken in this list:
Adler, Jerry. "Ape Man." Wired. August 2011.
Al-Kindi. The Medical Formulary or Aqrabadhin of Al-Kindi. Trans. Martin Leavey. Madison: U of Milwaukee P, 1966
Alsever, Jennifer. “Best Drugs Based on Venom.” Wired. June 2010.
Ammons, A.R.. 'Corsons Inlet.' The Selected Poems. NY: Norton, 1986.
Anderson, Benny. 'Relaxation.' Selected Poems. Trans. Alex Taylor. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1975.
Aristotle. Historica Animalium Vol. IV. Trans. A.L. Peck. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1965.
Ascani K. and Gabrielsen Vincent, eds. Ancient History Matters: Studies presented to Jens Erik Skydsgaard on his 70th Birthday. Rome, Italy: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2002.
Associated Press. "It Wasn't All Bad." Qtd. in The World, Aug. 12, 2011.
Attenborough, David. The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.
Austen, Ralph. "A Treatise for Fruit-Trees." In The English Landscape Garden. Ed. John D. Hunt. New York: Garland, 1982.
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010.
Barbut, James. The Genera Vermium Exemplified by Various Specimens of the Animals Contained in the Orders of the Intestina et Mollusca Linnæi. London: Egerton Military Library, 1794.
Barnett, S.A.. Instinct and Intelligence. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1967.
Barr, Alfred H.. 'Foreword.' Machine Art. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
Basho. Trans. Robert Hass. Twentieth Century Pleasures. New York, Ecco, 1984.
Berry, Jack, trans. West African Folk Tales. Ed. Richard Spears. Evanston: Northwestern U P, 1991. (This tale has been altered slightly from the original translation—MW)
Biedermann, Hans. Dictionary of Symbolism. Trans. James Hulbert. New York: Facts on File, 1992.
Bilger, Burkhard. "The Possibilian." The New Yorker. April 25, 2011.
Bishop, Elizabeth. 'Giant Snail.' Complete Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1991.
Bly, Robert. 'Turtle Climbing From a Rock.' Jumping Out Of Bed. Barre: Barre Publishers, 1973.
Bly, Robert. 'Looking Into a Tide Pool.' The Morning Glory. Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1970.
Brown, David Seymour. Freshwater Snails of Africa and Their Medical Importance. London: Taylor & Francis, 1994.
Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything. NY: Broadway Books, 2003.
Burch, John B.. How to Know the Eastern Land Snails. Dubuque: Brown, 1962.
Buson. Trans. Robert Hass. Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry. New York: Ecco, 1984.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A Dictionary of Symbols. Trans. John Buchanan Brown. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994.
Choi, Charles Q. "Heavy Brows, High Art?: Newly Unearthed Painted Shells Show Neandertals Were Homo sapiens's Mental Equals." Scientific American. Jan. 8, 2010.
Clare, John. ‘Summer Moods.’ I Am: Selected Poems. Ed. Jonathan Bate. NY: Farrah, Strauss, Giroux, 2003.
Cole, K.C.. The Universe and the Teacup. NY: Harcourt, 1998 (Frank Wilczek entry).
Collins, Billy. “Evasive Maneuvers.” Ballistics. NY: Random House, 2008.
Conway-Morris, Simon. The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals. Oxford: OUP, 1998.
Cowper, William, "The Snail." The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper. H. S. Milford, ed. London: Henry Frowde, 1905.
Cubien, Doreen. Are These Kites Headed for a Fall? National Wildlife (12.1.2006).
Daley, Jason. "Deep-Sea Snail Builds Its Own Ironclad Suit of Armor. But Even That Can't Protect It From Ocean Mining." Smithsonian Magazine, July 25, 2019.
Darwin, Charles qtd. in Julian Huxley, ed. The Essential Darwin. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006.
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. New York: New American Library, 1958.
Davis, Wade. The Wayfinders. Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press, 2009.
Dawkins, Richard. Climbing Mount Improbable. New York: Norton, 1996.
Devine, Robert. Alien Invasion: America's Battle With Non-Native Animals and Plants. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1998.
Diamond, Jared. Collapse. London: Penguin, 2006.
Dohrn-van Rossum, Gerhard. History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996.
Durcan, Paul. A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
Durrell, Gerald. The Amateur Naturalist. New York: Knopf, 1984.
Edson, Russell. 'With Sincerest Regrets.' The Tunnel: Selected Poems. Oberlin: Oberlin College P, 1994.
Eich, Günter. 'End of August'. Valuable Nail: Selected Poems. Trans. Stuart Freibert, David Walker, David Young. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin C P, 1981.
Ekelöf, Gunnar. 'Rondel.' Selected Poems. Trans. Leonard Nathan and James Larson. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1982.
Ellis, Richard. Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Escoffier, A.. Le Guide Culinaire. Trans. H.L. Cracknell and R.J. Kaufman. New York: Mayflower, 1921.
Eybers, Elisabeth. 'Snail.' The Penguin Book of Afican Verse. Eds. J. Cope and V. Krige. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
Fabre, J. Henri. The Insect World of J. Henri Farbre Trans. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949.
Feng, Emily. "Snail noodles go viral in China during the pandemic. But the dish is a bit ... funky." NPR Goats and Soda. Jan. 16, 2022.
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. New York: Free Press, 2002.
Fortey, Richard. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth. New York: Knopf, 1998.
Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Gewande, Atul. 'The Pain Perplex.' The New Yorker. Sept. 21, 1998.
Gooley, Tristan. How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea. New York: The Experiment, 2016.
Gooley, Tristan. The Natural Navigator: The Rediscovered Art of Letting Nature Be Your Guide. New York: The Experiment, 2016.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1993.
Gould, Stephen Jay. "Play It Again, Life." Natural History. Feb. 1986.
Goodman, Richard. French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Goodyear, Dana. "Grub: Eating Bugs to Save the Planet." The New Yorker. Aug. 15 & 22, 2011.
Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body. Ed. W.H. Lewis. Philadelphia: Lea and Feniger, 1942.
Green, Tamara, ed. Bugs: The Encyclopedia of Creepy Crawlies. NY: Smithmark, 1998.
Guisti, Guisseppe. 'The Snail.' Trans. Nigel Dennis. Poems From Italy. Ed. William Jay Smith. New York: Cromwell, 1972.
Gunn, Thom. “Considering the Snail.” Selected Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2009.
Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest. NY: Viking, 2007.
Hayden, Thomas. “Infecting a Snail.” Wired. June 2010.
Hubbell, Sue. Waiting For Aphrodite: Journeys Into The Time Before Bones. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Hunter, W. Russell. 'Ecology in Non-Marine Forms.' Physiology of Mollusca. Eds. K.M. Wilbur and C.M. Yonge. New York: Academic Press, 1964.
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Adler, Jerry. "Ape Man." Wired. August 2011.
Al-Kindi. The Medical Formulary or Aqrabadhin of Al-Kindi. Trans. Martin Leavey. Madison: U of Milwaukee P, 1966
Alsever, Jennifer. “Best Drugs Based on Venom.” Wired. June 2010.
Ammons, A.R.. 'Corsons Inlet.' The Selected Poems. NY: Norton, 1986.
Anderson, Benny. 'Relaxation.' Selected Poems. Trans. Alex Taylor. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1975.
Aristotle. Historica Animalium Vol. IV. Trans. A.L. Peck. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1965.
Ascani K. and Gabrielsen Vincent, eds. Ancient History Matters: Studies presented to Jens Erik Skydsgaard on his 70th Birthday. Rome, Italy: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2002.
Associated Press. "It Wasn't All Bad." Qtd. in The World, Aug. 12, 2011.
Attenborough, David. The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.
Austen, Ralph. "A Treatise for Fruit-Trees." In The English Landscape Garden. Ed. John D. Hunt. New York: Garland, 1982.
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010.
Barbut, James. The Genera Vermium Exemplified by Various Specimens of the Animals Contained in the Orders of the Intestina et Mollusca Linnæi. London: Egerton Military Library, 1794.
Barnett, S.A.. Instinct and Intelligence. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1967.
Barr, Alfred H.. 'Foreword.' Machine Art. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
Basho. Trans. Robert Hass. Twentieth Century Pleasures. New York, Ecco, 1984.
Berry, Jack, trans. West African Folk Tales. Ed. Richard Spears. Evanston: Northwestern U P, 1991. (This tale has been altered slightly from the original translation—MW)
Biedermann, Hans. Dictionary of Symbolism. Trans. James Hulbert. New York: Facts on File, 1992.
Bilger, Burkhard. "The Possibilian." The New Yorker. April 25, 2011.
Bishop, Elizabeth. 'Giant Snail.' Complete Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1991.
Bly, Robert. 'Turtle Climbing From a Rock.' Jumping Out Of Bed. Barre: Barre Publishers, 1973.
Bly, Robert. 'Looking Into a Tide Pool.' The Morning Glory. Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1970.
Brown, David Seymour. Freshwater Snails of Africa and Their Medical Importance. London: Taylor & Francis, 1994.
Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything. NY: Broadway Books, 2003.
Burch, John B.. How to Know the Eastern Land Snails. Dubuque: Brown, 1962.
Buson. Trans. Robert Hass. Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry. New York: Ecco, 1984.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A Dictionary of Symbols. Trans. John Buchanan Brown. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994.
Choi, Charles Q. "Heavy Brows, High Art?: Newly Unearthed Painted Shells Show Neandertals Were Homo sapiens's Mental Equals." Scientific American. Jan. 8, 2010.
Clare, John. ‘Summer Moods.’ I Am: Selected Poems. Ed. Jonathan Bate. NY: Farrah, Strauss, Giroux, 2003.
Cole, K.C.. The Universe and the Teacup. NY: Harcourt, 1998 (Frank Wilczek entry).
Collins, Billy. “Evasive Maneuvers.” Ballistics. NY: Random House, 2008.
Conway-Morris, Simon. The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals. Oxford: OUP, 1998.
Cowper, William, "The Snail." The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper. H. S. Milford, ed. London: Henry Frowde, 1905.
Cubien, Doreen. Are These Kites Headed for a Fall? National Wildlife (12.1.2006).
Daley, Jason. "Deep-Sea Snail Builds Its Own Ironclad Suit of Armor. But Even That Can't Protect It From Ocean Mining." Smithsonian Magazine, July 25, 2019.
Darwin, Charles qtd. in Julian Huxley, ed. The Essential Darwin. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006.
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. New York: New American Library, 1958.
Davis, Wade. The Wayfinders. Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press, 2009.
Dawkins, Richard. Climbing Mount Improbable. New York: Norton, 1996.
Devine, Robert. Alien Invasion: America's Battle With Non-Native Animals and Plants. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1998.
Diamond, Jared. Collapse. London: Penguin, 2006.
Dohrn-van Rossum, Gerhard. History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996.
Durcan, Paul. A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
Durrell, Gerald. The Amateur Naturalist. New York: Knopf, 1984.
Edson, Russell. 'With Sincerest Regrets.' The Tunnel: Selected Poems. Oberlin: Oberlin College P, 1994.
Eich, Günter. 'End of August'. Valuable Nail: Selected Poems. Trans. Stuart Freibert, David Walker, David Young. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin C P, 1981.
Ekelöf, Gunnar. 'Rondel.' Selected Poems. Trans. Leonard Nathan and James Larson. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1982.
Ellis, Richard. Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Escoffier, A.. Le Guide Culinaire. Trans. H.L. Cracknell and R.J. Kaufman. New York: Mayflower, 1921.
Eybers, Elisabeth. 'Snail.' The Penguin Book of Afican Verse. Eds. J. Cope and V. Krige. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
Fabre, J. Henri. The Insect World of J. Henri Farbre Trans. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949.
Feng, Emily. "Snail noodles go viral in China during the pandemic. But the dish is a bit ... funky." NPR Goats and Soda. Jan. 16, 2022.
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. New York: Free Press, 2002.
Fortey, Richard. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth. New York: Knopf, 1998.
Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Gewande, Atul. 'The Pain Perplex.' The New Yorker. Sept. 21, 1998.
Gooley, Tristan. How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea. New York: The Experiment, 2016.
Gooley, Tristan. The Natural Navigator: The Rediscovered Art of Letting Nature Be Your Guide. New York: The Experiment, 2016.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1993.
Gould, Stephen Jay. "Play It Again, Life." Natural History. Feb. 1986.
Goodman, Richard. French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Goodyear, Dana. "Grub: Eating Bugs to Save the Planet." The New Yorker. Aug. 15 & 22, 2011.
Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body. Ed. W.H. Lewis. Philadelphia: Lea and Feniger, 1942.
Green, Tamara, ed. Bugs: The Encyclopedia of Creepy Crawlies. NY: Smithmark, 1998.
Guisti, Guisseppe. 'The Snail.' Trans. Nigel Dennis. Poems From Italy. Ed. William Jay Smith. New York: Cromwell, 1972.
Gunn, Thom. “Considering the Snail.” Selected Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2009.
Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest. NY: Viking, 2007.
Hayden, Thomas. “Infecting a Snail.” Wired. June 2010.
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