Octopus! : The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea (Paperback)

from Xandylion

As a person who finds eating octopuses upsetting (because I like them so much), I was hoping for a book about their lives and their biology, their environment. Once I realized that the author was going to talk about eating them, I decided to press on anyway, hoping the eating would be anecdotal a...

from nmele

This book tantalized and frustrated me: I picked it up to learn something more about octopuses but found she could not decide whether to write a popular science book or a foodie paean to octopus (she even includes recipes). There are some interesting facts about octopuses presented clearly and wi...

from Eye_Gee

I am fascinated by octopus and did learn some new things from this book, but the author's breezy style made the whole thing feel like a long article written for a women's magazine. Disappointing.

from DarthDeverell

Katherine Harmon Courage begins her discussion in Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea with a necessary clarification on nomenclature: "The ancient Greeks christened the animal októpous...thanks to this Greek origin, the preferred common plural is octopuses - not octopi, octopodes, o...

from cameling

The octopus, often portrayed as vengeful and horrifying giant sea-monsters, are really shy and solitary creatures, preferring to hide in dark crevices on the ocean floor. They continue to fascinate us because they are so elusive and so difficult to study both in and out of their natural environme...