Friday, September 26 at 6 p.m. Northtown Books welcomes Bridget A. Lyons to present her new book Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species.

Entwined is a collection of fourteen original essays by Bridget Lyons, a traveler, explorer, and former wilderness guide who has encountered countless animals and plants in their native environments.

Set in locations ranging from Alaska and California to Mexico and Honduras, Lyons’s stories are braided with careful observation, scientific research, and wonder to foster the connection between us and our nonhuman neighbors.

As readers travel through a diversity of ecosystems, they'll navigate icebergs in Alaska while researching the nesting strategies of common eiders, witness the apparent demise of a humpback whale on the Baja Peninsula while instructing a wilderness course, observe ibex while trail running the Alps, and contemplate the mystery of the octopus from a Cretan museum. Along the way, they'll be awed by the beauty, creativity, and intelligence of the natural world—and awakened to the reality of its shrinking biodiversity.