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# The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness Hardcover – 21 May 2015

**Brand:** sy montgomery
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- **What is this?** The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness Hardcover – 21 May 2015 by sy montgomery
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        			&apos;A classic tale of girl meets octopus. You cannot help but romanticise Sy Montgomery&apos;s The Soul Of An Octopus. It isnt a straightforward natural history book so much as a swooning account of falling in love with tentacles... An engaging work of natural science&apos; --Daily Mail
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        			Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of twenty acclaimed books of nonfiction for adults and children, including the National Book Award finalist The Soul of an Octopus and the memoir&#xA0;The Good Good Pig, a&#xA0;New York Times&#xA0;bestseller. The recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the Humane Society and the New England Booksellers Association, she lives in New Hampshire with her husband, border collie, and flock of chickens.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Octopuses are way cooler and stranger than I had ever imagined
*by G***I on 26 September 2017*

A great book if you want to learn loads about octopuses, and let's face it – who wouldn't, octopuses are cool. Actually, they are way cooler and stranger than I had ever imagined. The author weaves her tale about her encounters, not just with octopuses at the New England Aquarium in Boston, but their human carers, with references to scientific papers, classical text, and works of philosophy and psychology. It is a remarkably complete and wide-ranging view of the octopus from just about every angle. And the informal conversational style makes it very readable too. It tries to get as close as t possible to trying to understand the emotional inner life of the octopus without anthropomorphising. I am not sure it entirely succeeds in this, there is plenty sentimentality, especially towards the end. For me, the big elephant in the room, lightly glossed over from time to time, was the whole issue around capturing such an intelligent animal from the wild and keeping it in a fairly barren and unstimulating aquarium (or pickle barrel!!). The octopuses are able to solve puzzles quickly and have complex social interactions with people, most of their time is spent in the unchanging environment of the aquarium. How this might affect them is difficult to say as the way they experience the world is quite different from us, but I felt this topic should have been tackled rather than brushed off.On the upside I now know for sure what the plural of octopus is and I am never likely to forget

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ thought provoking
*by C***E on 13 August 2018*

This is a really lovely book and quite an incredible story. It is easy to read and has been a good escape on my lunch and on busy days, leaving me with a constant stream of questions about consciousness, inter-species communication. I'm now hungry to find out more! Since my last visit to a large aquarium I have been fascinated by octopuses,  and this book has deepened and strengthened my love for them, along with all sea creatures, and made me feel so much more connected to their world.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting book, could do with more depth
*by T***S on 20 November 2018*

This is a well-written book exploring the world of octopuses, chiefly the giant pacific octopuses that live in the New England aquarium. The author takes us on a journey through her own discovery of these amazing animals - she even learns to scuba dive in order to gain a deeper (pardon the pun) understanding of their world. It's not a purely technical book through as there are long asides about the people working in the aquarium and their relationships to the world around them.The book suffers from a degree of repetition:"They lay strands of eggs that look like grains of rice""She is protecting all those eggs, each of which is only the size of a grain of rice""Octopuses grow from the size of a grain of rice""Hatching from an egg the size of a grain of rice, one can grow both longer and heavier than a man in three years."Yeah, we get the grain of rice thing! Enough already!The book also strays into some slightly dodgy territory when the author religion and the "soul" of the octopus, and when she dips into anthropomorphism and tells us, with no evidence (because how could there be?) "we knew in that moment that Octavia had not only remembered us and recognized us; she had wanted to touch us again."

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