As naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium, Lee watched octopuses at close quarters and recorded their habits, breeding and escapes. He describes the octopus and its relatives, individual animals he has known, the fearsome devil-fish of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea compared with fact, and the creature’s surprising behaviour out of water.
A delightful Victorian natural history that still captures the strangeness of the octopus. Download the free EPUB.