Memoirs of a naturalist through thirteen animals

Sy Montgomery is one of the foremost naturalists of our time. But she is not a very conventional naturalist. The Boston Globe he said of her that she was "a mix of Emily Dickinson and Indiana Jones". An exaggeration? Maybe not... Poetry, without a doubt, is as present in his books as in his way of understanding life. And adventure is another constant in her existence: she has swum with pink dolphins, piranhas and electric eels in rivers in Asia and Latin America, she has entered a pit with more than eighteen thousand snakes in Manitoba, she was bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica , an orangutan besieged her until leaving her practically naked in Borneo, a tiger was about to devour her in a mangrove swamp in Bangladesh...

This book is the autobiography of Sy Montgomery. Well more or less. It is certainly not an autobiography to use. A wild autobiography? We are getting closer... The author has decided to tell us about her life through thirteen animals, thirteen beings that she has known in her childhood, her youth or her maturity and that, in one way or another, have taught her to live. No, don't be scared: this is not one of those books that offers supposed lessons about the perseverance of the hedgehog or the confidence of the lion. These thirteen animals are real: real individuals, just like you and me. They are different from humans, of course, but just like us, they have their own knowledge, emotions, and interests, and through the encounter, coexistence, and friendship that the author has had with them, each one taught her what they knew and could share. . This is therefore a book about otherness and the similarity between humans and animals, about love and empathy towards others, about how those others (as different as an octopus or a tarantula) help us deal with loss or loss. despair. Coming to understand someone who belongs to another species can be a transformative experience. And it will undoubtedly make us better creatures.

6" x 9"

232 pages