Amphibious Soul
Finding the Wild in a Tame World

I waffled on this rating because it is a wonderful collection of oceanic observations, but it sometimes disconnects the reader in its 300 pages. Then I watched the trailer for his award-winning documentary "My Octopus Teacher" and suddenly realized these chapters are more of a video narrative, and t......more

In “Amphibious Soul,” Craig Foster takes us on a journey that transcends the boundaries between the wild and the civilized aspects of our existence. Having been introduced to Foster’s work through the visually stunning and emotionally resonant docustory “My Octopus Teacher,” I approached this book w......more

Forgot to pack my kindle and decided to buy a physical book at the airport convenience store. A decent collection of best sellers but nothing piqued my interest much, I settled on this book. Author is creator of my octopus neighbour so I was hoping the book would contain magical tales of secret unde......more

There are many interesting stories in this book that eventually proves to be about storytellers and how species speak these stories to us. But the writing can be disengaging at times, written more like a storyboard for a new documentary than a comprehensive narrative.......more

I’m not really a non-fiction person but this one was especially hard to get through for me. Especially the second half was pretty dull in my opinion. There were a couple anecdotes that were entertaining and I loved the part about mermaid cave drawings lol.......more