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- ISBN 9781643265650
- Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Workman Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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For being so abundant in our world, acorns are unfairly overlooked. With their distinctive dimpled caps and reputation for being a squirrel's favorite treat, it seems like there’s not much to them. In Acorns, naturalist and photographer Charles Hood shows us that there’s so much more to these little nuts than is widely acknowledged. Through conversational and often humorous writing, Hood teaches curious readers how acorns work, how they propagate and beat different odds against them, and how a multitude of different animals have come to rely on and love them—including humans. The Studies in Nature series offers close observations, passionate research, and natural obsessions on a variety of nature-related topics. Featuring illustrations by Stacy Hsu and black and white photography, they offer big ideas in a small, giftable, and collectible package.
Charles Hood is a poet and naturalist. The author of over twenty books, he has been a factory worker, a ski instructor, a dishwasher, and a nature guide in Africa. Nature study has taken him across all fifty of the US states and to eighty countries, from New Guinea to Borneo to the South Pole. Along the way he has been lost in a whiteout in the Himalayas, contracted (and survived) bubonic plague, and published more than seven hundred photographs. His titles with Timber Press include Wild LA, a field guide to reptiles and amphibians, and a guide to the best roadside hikes in California. Jane Goodall wrote the foreword to his book Wild Sonoma, and his essay collection, A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat, was named the Nonfiction Book of the Year by the editors of Foreword book review. He lives in the Mojave Desert with two kayaks, two mountain bikes, two dogs, and five thousand books.
