![]() "A Green World Deep in Winter: The Bedside Terrarium". ^ Bailey, Elisabeth Tova (20 February 2011). Winner of the 2012 non-fiction category of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.Winner of the 2010 Natural History Literature category of the National Outdoor Book Award (joint award).Winner of the 2010 John Burroughs Medal.In the last page of the book Tova Bailey wishes terrestrial snails to survive to the ongoing Holocene extinction. She also deepened the scientific aspects of her small guest's natural history, and became aware of the richness of its existence. ![]() The presence of the snail offered the author the opportunity to discover the peculiarities of its anatomy and behaviour, and helped her to cope with her own illness. The book describes the author's observations of an individual land snail in the species Neohelix albolabris, which lived in a terrarium next to her while she was confined to bed through dysautonomia, mitochondrial disease and chronic fatigue syndrome. Drawing of live animal of Neohelix albolabris ![]()
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