A World in a Shell - Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions Geografie the book succeeds in highlighting

the book succeeds in highlighting diverse lines and connections among them

an exceedingly treacherous mythical name for a scientific theory ¥ A parallel with Pasteur's microbes ¥ Lovelock too makes micro-actors proliferate ¥ How to avoid the idea of a system

Denn du bist ökologisch

als noch Wölfe und Bären die Wälder durchstreiften«

Reihe: Naturkunden Bd

A World in a Shell - Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions Geografie the book succeeds in highlightingFollowing the trails of Hawai'i's snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction. 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'ionce home to more than 750 species of land snails, almost two thirds of which are now gone. Following snail