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OCTOPUS!

Katherine Harmon Courage

The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea

No one understands the octopus. With eight arms, three hearts, camouflaging skin, and a disarmingly sentient look behind its highly evolved eyes, how could it appear anything but utterly alien?
A fascinating look at the animal through its life, death, robotic replicas, and delicious dinners.
We eat, catch, study, copy, and idealize the octopus. Yet this strange creature still eludes our understanding. With eight arms, three hearts, camouflaging skin, and a disarmingly intelligent look behind its eyes, it appears utterly alien. Yet octopuses have been captivating humans for as long as we’ve been catching them. Cultures have created octopus-centric creation myths, art, and, of course, cuisine. For all of our ancient fascination and modern research, however, we still haven’t been able to get a firm grasp on these slippery beasts. Now journalist Katherine Harmon Courage dives into the fascinating underwater world of these mysterious cephalopods. From her transatlantic adventures to Spain and Greece, expeditions in the Caribbean and back to Brooklyn, she invites readers to experience the scientific discoveries, deep cultural ties and delicious meals connected to the octopus.
Katherine Harmon Courage covers health, biology, food, the environment and general interest stories. She has most recently worked as an editor at Scientific American, which she joined in 2009 after completing an M.A. in journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her work has won regional and national awards and has appeared in books, magazines, and newspapers.
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Published 2013-10-31 by Current

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Published 2013-10-31 by Current

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Katherine Harmon Courage’s first book Octopus! is crammed with funny, weird, memorable stories about human interactions with cephalopods that start out strange and only get stranger.

What is it like to be an octopus? We need to imagine that our arms, all eight of them, can think and that our skin can see. Despite our obvious trouble understanding this invertebrate, no one doubts its intellect. A delightful book about a fascinating creature!

The octopus is like an alternate experiment in intelligent life—sophisticated, alluring, and wholly alien. In her fresh, deeply reported book, Katherine Harmon Courage makes this creature a little less mysterious, but no less marvelous

Entertaining and eye-opening!

Katherine Harmon Courage’s reportage on what the mollusk is teaching us about robotics, invertebrate intelligence and camouflage is excellent.

According to this book, octopuses can sprout temporary horns. Horns! Seriously, you need to read this book.

Japanese rights to Ohta Shuppan

A pleasant, chatty book on a fascinating subject.