A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions (Paperback)

Introduction 
In Search of Snails 1

1 The Wanderers 
A Foray into Worlds Written in Slime 23

2 The Drifters
The Mysterious Deep Time Movements of Snails 51

3 The Collected
The Ongoing Colonial Entanglements of Shells 81

4 The Anonymous 
Taxonomy and the Unknown Extinction Crisis 113

5 The Exploded 
Solidarity and Military Snails 147

6 The Captives 
Hope in a Time of Loss 177

Epilogue 197

Acknowledgments 211
Glossary 215
Notes 219
Bibliography 245
Index 263