AMPHIBIOUS SOUL, finding the wild in a tame world

311pp, colour illus., paperback, First SA Edition, Johannesburg, 2024

First published in the UK in 2024.

Memoir by photographer and documentary filmmaker Craig Foster. Foster is the subject, photographer and producer of the film My Octopus Teacher, directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, which won the 2021 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His other documentary films include The Great Dance: a hunter's story and Into the Dragon's Lair. He took the photographs for the book Sea Change, return to the wild, written by Ross Frylinck. He lives in Cape Town.

"With haunting prose, Foster inspires thoughts about where we fit as humans within systems that have taken four and a half billion years to shape ... His calm respect for the perspectives of other creatures suggests a way to navigate humankind's most daunting challenge: surviving a rapidly changing planet" Sylvia Earle, biologist, oceanographer and author of The World is Blue

"Foster proves that if you reach out to the wild, beautiful natural world, it reaches out to you. The result is magical." Don Pinnock, environmental journalist