A quirky and reverent romp through nature with an irreverently funny guide.
‘Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood may be my favorite. He never stops telling stories, and his perspective is fundamentally comic, even when he’s recounting a tragedy.’ — Jonathan Franzen
In these wry and explosively funny essays, nature obsessive Charles Hood reveals his abiding affection for the overlooked and undervalued parts of the natural world. Like a Bill Bryson of the Mojave exurbs, Hood takes us on a joyride through the obscure, finding wilderness in Hollywood palms, the airports of Alaska, and the empty lots of Palmdale. In a zinger-filled whirl of literary and artistic allusions, he celebrates Audubon’s droopy condor, the world-changing history of a cactus parasite, and the weird art of natural history dioramas. This debut collection of creative nonfiction from a widely published poet, photographer, and wildlife guide unveils the wonderment of nature’s underbelly with poetic vision and singular wit.
Inhoudsopgave
I Heart Ugly Nature
The Lure of the List
Nature Journals for Fun and Profit
Fifty Dreams for Forty Monkeys
Things You Can Do with Water
Two Thousand Palm Trees
Divorce Insurance
A Small, Humble Addiction
Confessions of an Amateur
Today I Will Draw a Penguin
Love and Sex in Natural History Dioramas
Cochineal and the Color Red
Audubon’s Tiny Houses
Landscape with Unicorns and Barnacles
Over de auteur
Poet and essayist Charles Hood grew up next to the Los Angeles River and has been a factory worker, ski instructor, boat salesman, and birding guide. He stopped counting birds when his list reached 5, 000, but he soon replaced it with a mammal list, which now nears 1, 000. Wild LA, his book in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was named the best nonfiction book of 2019 by the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. Hood currently lives and teaches in the Antelope Valley and is the author of Heyday’s A Californian’s Guide to the Birds among Us and A Californian’s Guide to the Mammals among Us, as well as nine and a half books of poetry.
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