and#8220;Engrossingand#8221; (The Christian Science Monitor), and#8220;fascinatingand#8221; (TimeOut New York), and#8220;delightfully nuancedand#8221; (Entertainment Weekly), and#8220;terrificand#8221; (New York Newsday), and#8220;inspiringand#8221; (Bustmagazine). and#8220;You know a book is good when you actually welcome one of those howling days of wind and sleet that makes going out next to impossibleand#8221; (The New York Times).

The Earth Moved has moved reviewers across the country. In witty, offbeat style, Amy Stewart takes us on a subterranean adventure and introduces us to our planetand#8217;s most important gatekeeper: the humble earthworm. Itand#8217;s true that the earthworm is small, spineless, and blind, but its effect on the ecosystem is profound,moving Charles Darwin to devote his last years to studying its remarkable attributes and achievements.

With the august scientist as her inspiration, Stewart investigates the earthwormand#8217;s astonishing realm, talks to oligochaetologists who have devoted their lives to unearthing the complex web of life beneath our feet, and observes the thousands of worms in her own garden. Stewartand#8217;s and#8220;ease in gliding from worms to plants to humans will remind readers of John McPheeand#8217;s essays on canoes, oranges, the geology of Americaand#8221; (Providence Journal). and#8220;Stewartand#8217;s book paddles along in [Rachel] Carsonand#8217;s wake. Read her book and youand#8217;ll start to see how the rhododendron bed in front of your house is a kind of Mars for frontier scienceand#8221; (The Boston Globe).

andquot;An admirable portrait of that tireless ploughman: the earthworm...A nifty piece of natural history. Earthworms of the world can stand a little taller.andquot;

and#8212;Kirkus Reviews

In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Mark Kurlansky and Sue Hubbell, the first single-topic natural history book on this unsung hero of our ecosystem.

Amy Stewart's last book, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, won the California Horticultural Society's Writer's Award for 2005, was a featured selection of the Discovery Channel Book Club, and was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Jose Mercury News. Her articles appear regularly in Organic Gardeningand the San Francisco Chronicle. The recipient of a 2006 National Endowment of the Arts for Literature Fellowship, Stewart lives in northern California.