The Wake Of The Whale

Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Russell Fielding presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in these different cultures and describes what their future might look like as modern realities take hold.

A history of whaling and whalers in New Zealand and the southwest Pacific.

Discusses the life and experiences of Bill Curtsinger, a well-known cetecean photographer.

A journey to Alaska’s remote roadless villages, during a time of great historical transition, brings us this enduring portrait of a place and its people. Alutiiq, Yup’ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan subjects reveal themselves as entirely contemporary individuals with deep longings and connection to the land and to their past. Tom Kizzia’s account of his travels off the Alaska road system, first published in 1991, has endured with a sterling reputation for its thoughtful, poetic, unflinching engagement with the complexity of Alaska’s rural communities. Wake of the Unseen Object is now considered some of the finest nonfiction writing about Alaska. This new edition includes an updated introduction by the author, looking at what remains the same after thirty years and what is different—both in Alaska, and in the expectations placed on a reporter visiting from another world.

Герман Мелвилл (1819–1891) – выдающийся американский писатель-романтик.«Моби Дик» (1851) – одна из признанных вершин американской прозы, философский роман о трагических попытках сильной личности бросить вызов року.Неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала снабжен комментариями и словарем.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished by the sight of 25 right whales. Until that time, scientists believed the North Atlantic right whale was extinct or nearly so. The sightings electrified the research community, spurring a quarter century of exploration, which is documented here.

Dead men tell no tales or do they? In New York City, a body has been found floating in the frozen Hudson River. Devoid of any identification, the medical examiner has determined by autopsy that in all probability, a crime has been committed that took place more than fifty years ago. The body, that of a male is missing a left ear and the inside pocket of a pea coat contains black and white photographs along with a pack of 1952 Topps baseball cards. A classic textbook cold case, is this fact based on fiction or fiction based on fact?

Explores how humans' view of whales changed from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, looking at how the sea mammals were once viewed as monsters but evolved into something much gentler and more beautiful.

The discovery of a beached whale leads young Corey Blake to an incredible voyage into an underwater universe of adventure, discovery and transformation. Corey and her younger brother Alexander, miraculously inhabit the bodies of two Gray Whales and travel to a mysterious congregation of cetaceans intent on changing the course of human and planetary destiny. We are introduced to a host of whale communities and personalities, from the comic to the mystical, who are all the while being threatened by nefarious government agents.

The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius robustus provides an introduction to the understanding of Eschrichtius robustus or the gray whale. This book explores the life processes, reproduction, and growth of large cetacean populations. Organized into four parts encompassing 25 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the gray whale evolution, fossils, and subfossil remains, range, and systematics in historical times. This text then presents the historical of gray whale exploitation and the economic importance of these whales to humans. Other chapters consider the gray whale migration, abundance, and seasonal distribution in the wake of the California population's recovery from depletion. This book discusses as well the methods used in shore-based censuses during migration and in aerial surveys of gray whales taken on their winter grounds. The final chapter deals with some innovative approaches to the study of free-ranging cetaceans. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists, paleontologists, biologists, and naturalists.

Describes the habits and characteristics of the largest mammal on earth--the blue whale. Also discusses how whaling over the years has nearly destroyed the species.