Sy Montgomery

Author · 37 books

Part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson, as the Boston Globe describes her, Sy Montgomery is an author, naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who has traveled to some of the worlds most remote wildernesses for her work. She has worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba, been hunted by a tiger in India, swum with pink dolphins in the Amazon, and been undressed by an orangutan in Borneo. She is the author of 13 award-winning books, including her national best-selling memoir, The Good Good Pig. Montgomery lives in Hancock, New Hampshire.

Series

The Hummingbirds' Gift

Series · 3 books

By Sy Montgomery

Books

The Book of Turtles

2023

Becoming a Good Creature

2020

What the Chicken Knows

A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

2024

The Tapir Scientist

Saving South America's Largest Mammal

2013

The Soul of an Octopus

A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

2015

Saving the Ghost of the Mountain

An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia

1774

Inky's Amazing Escape

How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home

2018

The Octopus Scientists

Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk

2015

Secrets of the Octopus

2024

The Hawk's Way

Encounters with Fierce Beauty

2022

The Snake Scientist

1999

The Good Good Pig

The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

2006

Kakapo Rescue

Saving the World's Strangest Parrot

2010

Temple Grandin

How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

2012

The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans

1995

Of Time and Turtles

Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

2023

The Seagull and the Sea Captain

2022

Walking with the Great Apes

Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas

1991

The Hummingbirds' Gift

Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings

2021

Condor Comeback

2020

The Tarantula Scientist

2004

Search for the Golden Moon Bear

Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species

2002

Amazon Adventure

How Tiny Fish Are Saving the World's Largest Rainforest

2017

Spell of the Tiger

The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans

1656

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo

An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea

2006

Tamed and Untamed

Close Encounters of the Animal Kind

2017

How to Be a Good Creature

A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

2018

The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019

2019

Birdology

Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

2010