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Gone Whaling
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Author : Douglas Hand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Gone Whaling written by Douglas Hand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Nature categories.
In the darkened halls of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Douglas Hand encountered a killer whale with the head of a man emerging from the blowhole. This puzzling and haunting specter was carved on a worn cedar totem pole of the Haida, Native Americans of the Northwest coast. What indigenous wisdom inspired orca and human to be wrought together in wood? Indeed, where does one species begin and the other end? Gone Whaling is the exquisitely rendered account of a journey to the waters of the Pacific Northwest to find answers to those questions as well as to track down the essence of orca, that wildest of animals. The quest takes the author first to the Vancouver Aquarium, where he encounters orcas in tanks and scientists who blur the lines between research and showmanship. Moving out to the San Juan Islands, he locates Ken Balcolm, marine biologist and orca census-taker, who deciphers the familial dynamics of the whales by tracking their far migrations. From there, he is led to the controversial researcher Paul Spong - known as the "patron saint of the whales" - who is mapping the clicks and squeaks the orcas make as they travel by his home on remote Hansen Island. But science can go only so far in providing a real understanding of the mystery of these creatures of the sea, so Douglas Hand turns to the last remaining Haida totem carvers to explain what orca means. In the end, he is inspired to take on the dangerous waters himself in a one-man kayak to encounter his own orca. Gone Whaling is rich with natural history and human stories. The mysterious and deeply complex behavior of orcas is described with crystalline detail and style. The inquiry itself is infusedwith the author's boundless curiosity and tempered with his wry humor. This luminous and confident book appeals to the part of us all that has pondered the deep rift between humans and other creatures, between the modern and the primitive. There is an old Haida belief that a good life is rewarded by death and rebirth as an orca. Therefore, you should treat the orca well that swims close to shore, for it may be your ancestor. This special book probes the boundary that separates and binds humans to killer whales, and humans to the natural order.
Gone A Whaling
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Author : Jim Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1998
Gone A Whaling written by Jim Murphy and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages.
Gone A Whaling
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Gone A Whaling written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Whales categories.
Gone A Whaling
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Author : Jim Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2004-04-30
Gone A Whaling written by Jim Murphy and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-30 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages.
Father S Gone A Whaling
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Author : Alice Cushing Gardiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Father S Gone A Whaling written by Alice Cushing Gardiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Nantucket (Mass.) categories.
Gone Whaling
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Author : R. G. Chittleborough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Gone Whaling written by R. G. Chittleborough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Marine biologists categories.
Gone Whaling
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Author : Graham Chittleborough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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Cobblestone
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Cobblestone written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Whales categories.
The Whale
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Author : Marion Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Exposition Pressof Florida
Release Date : 1978-01-01
The Whale written by Marion Phillips and has been published by Exposition Pressof Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-01-01 with Whales categories.
Father S Gone A Whaling
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Author : Alice Cushing Gardiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Father S Gone A Whaling written by Alice Cushing Gardiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Nantucket Island (Mass.) categories.