Charles Hood, author of Nocturnalia, presents his newest book, California’s Best Nature Walks: 32 Easy Ways to Explore the Golden State’s Ecology, at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley.

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Charles Hood has studied birds and natural history from the Amazon to Tibet, and he has seen more than five thousand species of birds in the wild. A widely published poet, he has received numerous fellowships and writing awards and is the author of the Heyday collection A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat. His other Heyday titles include field guides to mammals and birds, and for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County he was the lead author and photographer for the book Wild LA.