Charles Hood presents Nocturnalia: Nature in the Western Night at Diesel, a Bookstore in Brentwood.

225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA

This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard. Free seating is limited. To reserve a seat, please purchase one copy of a book for one seat. 

Charles Hood has been a factory worker, a ski instructor, a dishwasher, and a nature guide in Africa. He later went on to receive an MFA in poetry from UC Irvine, studying under Charles Wright and Louise Glück. He has published 19 books, including Wild Sonoma, with a foreword by Jane Goodall, and A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat, which was named the Nonfiction Book of the Year by the editors of the Foreword book review. Earlier, his book Wild LA was named a Nonfiction Book of the Year by the California Association of Independent Booksellers. It is in its 4 th printing. Charles is an accomplished birder and experienced world traveler, and nature study has taken him across all fifty states and to eighty countries, from New Guinea to Madagascar to the South Pole. During these journeys Charles has encountered 5,000 species of birds and over 1,000 species of mammals. Along the way he has been lost in a whiteout in Tibet, contracted (and survived) bubonic plague, and published over 700 photographs. He is currently working on a book of essays about seabirds, a limited-edition photography collection, and an article about mink coats.