A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat

The Joys of Ugly Nature

Charles Hood

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Heyday Books
16 December 2021

Wildlife: general interest

"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."

By: Charles Hood
Imprint: Heyday Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781597145459
ISBN 10: 1597145459
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 16 December 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature

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