Lecture, Book Sale & Signing
•Friday Night with Light Supper and Wine
•Saturday Afternoon with Refreshments
Witte Hall, 998 Avocado Avenue, Newport Beach
•Friday, February 19, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
•Saturday, February 20, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Sy Montgomery
Wild Wonders: Sy Montgomery’s Journey Through the Animal Kingdom
Friday, February 19, 7:00pm
Saturday, February 20, 2:00pm
To research her books, films, and articles, Sy Montgomery has encountered an array of thrilling experiences: she has been pursued by an irate silverback gorilla in Zaire and bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica. She has worked in a pit teeming with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba and handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana. Sy’s 38 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. The Soul of an Octopus was a 2015 Finalist for the National Book Awards. The Good Good Pig, her memoir of life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood, is an international bestseller. Her work with the man-eating tigers, the subject of her book Spell of The Tiger, was made into in a National Geographic television documentary she scripted and narrated. Also, for National Geographic TV she developed and scripted Mother Bear Man, about her friend, Ben Kilham, who raises and releases orphaned bear cubs, which won a Chris award.
Sy is also the author of the just published Secrets of Octopus from National Geographic, the companion volume to the 3-part TV series of the same name. And she wrote the cover story for the May issue of National Geographic Magazine–which is an excerpt from her new book.