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In this astonishing book from the author of the best selling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus--a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature--and the remarkable connections it makes with humans.

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A page-turning adventure...If there is a Mother Nature, her name is Sy Montgomery. -- Vicki Constantine Croke, New York Times bestseller author An engaging work of natural science...There is clearly something about the octopus's weird beauty that fires the imaginations of explorers, scientists, writers. -- Daily Mail (London) Charming and moving...with extraordinary scientific research. -- Guardian (London) Delightful. -- Nature Enter the mysterious intelligent alien world of the octopus. Experience a real intelligence based on a sense of touch that humans can barely imagine. -- Temple Grandin, New York Times bestselling author Fascinating...touching...informative...Entertaining books like The Soul of an Octopus remind us of just how much we not only have to learn from fellow creatures, but that they can have a positive impact on our lives. -- Daily Beast Inspired by both rigorous scientific curiosity and enraptured wonder and empathy...She also tells funny and moving stories...Profoundly recalibrates our perception of consciousness, communication, and community. -- Booklist (starred review) Montgomery chronicles her extraordinary experience bonding with three octopuses...With apparent delight, Montgomery puts readers inside the world of these amazing creatures. A fascinating glimpse into an alien consciousness. -- Kirkus Reviews Sy Montgomery is fascinated by octopuses...She sounds palpably excited; her enthusiasm for the octopus and her fellow octopus enthusiasts shines. -- AudioFile Sy Montgomery's joyful passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures will have you rethinking that order of calamari. -- Library Journal (starred review)

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Sy Montgomery is the author of more than fifteen nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestseller How to Be a Good Creature. She has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and swum with piranhas and pink dolphins in the Amazon. To research her books, films, and articles, she has worked in a pit swarming with 18,000 snakes in Canada and been hunted by a tiger in India. She has hiked the Altai Mountains of Mongolia's Gobi desert in search of snow leopards and penetrated the cloud forests of Papua New Guinea to radio collar tree kangaroos. No place is too far to go to bring animals' true stories to adults and children around the world. She writes for print as well as broadcast in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible at what she considers a critical turning point in human history. Sy Montgomery is the author of more than fifteen nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestseller How to Be a Good Creature. She has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and swum with piranhas and pink dolphins in the Amazon. To research her books, films, and articles, she has worked in a pit swarming with 18,000 snakes in Canada and been hunted by a tiger in India. She has hiked the Altai Mountains of Mongolia's Gobi desert in search of snow leopards and penetrated the cloud forests of Papua New Guinea to radio collar tree kangaroos. No place is too far to go to bring animals' true stories to adults and children around the world. She writes for print as well as broadcast in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible at what she considers a critical turning point in human history.

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