What does it take to succeed as a field zoologist, particularly as a woman in a heavily male-dominated industry? Resilience, adaptability and a longing for adventure. These are the traits that Lorna Lyons highlights in her personal memoir, Drinking from the Iceberg. Across seventy short scenes, spanning around thirty years and four provinces and one territory, Lyons invites the reader into her home and family, her successes and struggles of her early life and early career.