The Skin That Sees
Four Journeys into the Living Skin of the OctopusBy Rowan Cassidy
Length49m
About this audiobook
The skin does more than hide. Book Two widens out from disguise into stranger country: a thumb-sized octopus that throws on rings of warning it can switch bright in an instant, an animal that may read light with its skin as well as its eyes, a small octopus that carries its own shelter across open sand and builds a hiding place where there is nothing to hide, and a green that holds no green at all, struck from the failing light by a craft the sea has been refining since before there were trees. Part natural history and part meditation on perception and deep time, each journey ends not on a lesson but on a single image you can almost feel.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Rings That Mean, Do Not Touch!
2Seeing With the Whole Body
3Hiding Where There Is Nothing to Hide
4The Green That Holds No Green
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