A salad only the devil would eat : the joys of ugly nature / Charles Hood.

"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Essays. Selections
Main Author:	Hood, Charles, 1959- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2021]
Subjects:	Nature > Miscellanea. Nature > Humor. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General. Nature. Humor. Trivia and miscellanea.
Genre:	Miscellanea. Humor. Trivia and miscellanea.
Physical Description:	222 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

I heart ugly nature
The lure of the list
Nature journals for fun and profit
Fifty dreams for forty monkeys
Two thousand palm trees
Things you can do with water
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.