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The Great Sperm Whale

Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700617728
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Great Sperm Whale written by Richard Ellis and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, Richard Ellis has produced a remarkable body of work that has been called "magnificent" (Washington Post Book World), "masterful" (Scientific American), "magical" (Men's Journal), and a "dazzling tour de force" (Christian Science Monitor). Ellis's new book-a fascinating tour through the world of the sperm whale-will surely inspire more such praise for the author heralded by Publisher Weekly as "America's foremost writer on marine research." Written with Ellis's deep knowledge and trademark passion, verve, and wit-and illustrated with a wide array of images including his own signature artwork-his study covers the full spectrum of the sperm whale's existence from its prehistoric past to its current endangered existence. Ellis, as no one else can, illuminates the iconic impact of Physeter macrocephalus ("big-headed blower") on our history, environment, and culture, with a substantial nod to Herman Melville and Moby-Dick, the great novel that put the sperm whale (and whaling) on the literary map. Ranging far and wide, Ellis covers the sperm whale's evolution, ecology, biology, anatomy, behavior, social organization, intelligence, communications, migrations, diet, and breeding. He also devotes considerable space to the whale's hunting prowess, including its clashes with the giant squid, and to the history of the whaling industry that decimated its numbers during the last two centuries. He even includes a story about a beached juvenile he helped rescue, an event that provided scientists with one of their first opportunities to observe a sperm whale in the water and up close. Offering a rich tapestry for anyone with an interest in the marvels of ocean life, Ellis's book provides an indispensable guide to the life and times of one of the planet's most intelligent, elusive, and endangered species.

Sperm Whales

Author : Hal Whitehead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226895181
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Sperm Whales written by Hal Whitehead and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed in story as "the great leviathans," sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males can reach a length of sixty-two feet and can weigh upwards of fifty tons. With this book, Hal Whitehead gives us a clearer picture of the ecology and social life of sperm whales than we have ever had before. Based on almost two decades of field research, Whitehead describes their biology, behavior, and habitat; how they organize their societies; and how their complex lifestyles may have evolved in this unique environment. Among the many fascinating topics he explores is the crucial role that culture plays in the life of the sperm whale, and he traces the consequences of this argument for both evolution and conservation. Finally, drawing on these findings, Whitehead builds a general model of how the ocean environment influences social behavior and cultural evolution among mammals as well as other animals. The definitive portrait of a provocative creature, Sperm Whales will interest animal behaviorists, conservationists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists as well as marine mammalogists.

Giant of the Sea

Author : Courtney Granet Raff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931465809
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Giant of the Sea written by Courtney Granet Raff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spend a day with a mama and baby sperm whale.

Becoming Wild

Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250173345
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Wild written by Carl Safina and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 "In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."—The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures—what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But this book reveals cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places. It shows how if you’re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too come to understand yourself as an individual within a particular community that does things in specific ways, that has traditions. Alongside genes, culture is a second form of inheritance, passed through generations as pools of learned knowledge. As situations change, social learning—culture—allows behaviors to adjust much faster than genes can adapt. Becoming Wild brings readers into intimate proximity with various nonhuman individuals in their free-living communities. It presents a revelatory account of how animals function beyond our usual view. Safina shows that for non-humans and humans alike, culture comprises the answers to the question, “How do we live here?” It unites individuals within a group identity. But cultural groups often seek to avoid, or even be hostile toward, other factions. By showing that this is true across species, Safina illuminates why human cultural tensions remain maddeningly intractable despite the arbitrariness of many of our differences. Becoming Wild takes readers behind the curtain of life on Earth, to witness from a new vantage point the most world-saving of perceptions: how we are all connected.

MOBY DICK

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Castellnou
ISBN 13 : 849804913X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book MOBY DICK written by Herman Melville and published by Castellnou. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moby Dick és la novel·la més important de Melville. Explica l'obsessió d'un home, el capità Ahab, per matar Moby Dick, una balena en la qual veu l'encarnació del Mal. Ahab actua mogut per l'odi a l'animal que, una vegada, li va arrencar una cama. Però, per sobre del ressentiment, predomina la seva convicció que Moby Dick és un ésser malèfic que el destí ha decidit posar davant d'ell perquè el mati o perquè mori en l'intent.

The Natural History of the Sperm Whale ...

Author : Thomas Beale (surgeon.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of the Sperm Whale ... written by Thomas Beale (surgeon.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sperm Whales

Author : Victor Gentle
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780836828856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Sperm Whales written by Victor Gentle and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text describes sperm whales, where they live, how they care for their young and the dangers they face.

Banshee and the Sperm Whale

Author : Jake Camp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948920148
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Banshee and the Sperm Whale written by Jake Camp and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sunset wedding in Kona. An ugly secret discovered on an iPhone. Experimental philosophical marriage counseling. Time travel. Diver Neurons and Angel Neurons separated by Sea and Sky. Banshee and the Sperm Whale takes the reader on a journey into the unconscious mind of Martin, a biracial chef from Denver who suffers from a particular kind of overabundance. Along the way, a modern allegory unfolds, and everyday notions about self-knowledge, the nature of good and evil, and possibility of finding meaning and spiritual significance in the face of inexorable uncertainty are turned inside-out.

The Totnes Monster

Author : Dimitri Kissoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992796631
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book The Totnes Monster written by Dimitri Kissoff and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AT LAST! THE BOOK OF THE FILM! London's royal parks in the halcyon days of the summer of 1968 were a minefield of drugged up and generally lazy youth waiting to be swept away. Though some were swept into psychiatric hospitals, just under the carpet or even back into straight society - some found their way into the clutches of the many religious groups set up at that time by various gurus, dubious reverends and the like. The financial beneficiaries of these groups were most often the same dubious gurus. This is the story of some of these poor souls, their subcontinental guru, a nasty virus, a vicar and many, many too numerous to mention. It is also truly the story of a Great Sperm Whale and a rotting tub full of Greek Seamen.

Ahab's Rolling Sea

Author : Richard J. King
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022651496X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Ahab's Rolling Sea written by Richard J. King and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees.

The Cruise of the "Cachalot"

Author : Frank Thomas Bullen
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465526315
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Cruise of the "Cachalot" written by Frank Thomas Bullen and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1928 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Whale

Author : Philip Hoare
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061976202
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Whale written by Philip Hoare and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale, to his abiding love of Moby-Dick, to his adult encounters with the living animals in the Atlantic Ocean, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare has been obsessed with whales. The Whale is his unforgettable and moving attempt to explain why these strange and beautiful animals exert such a powerful hold on our imagination.

Whale Boy

Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448157013
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Whale Boy written by Nicola Davies and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael, a young boy growing up on the tropical island of Rose Town, has been saving up for his own fishing boat for years. But when a terrible storm wrecks his home, Michael is forced to take a job working for a rich, mysterious newcomer named Spargo. Spargo asks Michael to search for one thing in the deep waters around Rose Town - whales . . .

Great Whales

Author : John Bannister
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643099026
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Great Whales written by John Bannister and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008-06-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whales are mysterious and fascinating creatures. Despite modern technology, their world is still largely unexplored and unknown. They can only be seen, or rather glimpsed, when they are near the sea surface, either from boats, or perhaps from shore, or underwater by divers. They also reach astonishing sizes – the blue whale, for example, can grow to 30 metres in length, equivalent to the height of a six-storey building, and can weigh more than 130 tonnes. Seven ‘Great Whales’ are found in the coastal waters surrounding Australia. These include six of the largest baleen whales – blue whale, fin whale, humpback whale, sei whale, Bryde’s whale and southern right whale – and the sperm whale, the largest toothed whale. This book provides a detailed account of these extraordinary mammals. As well as the seven Great Whales, a smaller species – the minke whale – is included because of its special interest to Australians. The book describes whales’ highly specialised mammalian structure and biology, and the history of people’s association with them, at first through legend and wonder, then whaling, and more recently whale watching. It also looks at their past and current status, and the conservation initiatives that are in place to protect them from existing or potential threats. With both historical and recent photographs, as well as an extensive glossary, Great Whales will be enjoyed by natural history enthusiasts, zoologists and students alike.

Physty

Author :
Publisher : Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781561382712
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Physty written by and published by Running Press Book Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the adventures of a young sperm whale that gets beached near New York City, and is later helped by a group of helpful whale watchers.

Beautiful Whale

Author : Bryant Austin
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683355547
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Whale written by Bryant Austin and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVPhotographer and conservationist Bryant Austin’s breathtaking photographic project Beautiful Whale is the first of its kind: It chronicles his fearless attempts to reach out to whales as fellow sentient beings. Featuring Austin’s intimate images—some as detailed as a single haunting eye—that result from encounters based on mutual trust, Beautiful Whale captures the grace and intelligence of these magnificent creatures. Austin spent days at a time submerged, motionless, in the waters of remote spawning grounds waiting for humpback, sperm, and minke whales to seek him out. As oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle says in her foreword to the book, “As an ambassador from the ocean—and to the ocean—Bryant Austin is not only a source of inspiration. He is cause for hope.†? Praise for Beautiful Whale: “You can’t help thinking, with every passing page, that this is what’s it’s like to swim with the whales.†? —The Wall Street Journal /div

The Year of the Whale

Author : Victor B. Scheffer
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558214484
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The Year of the Whale written by Victor B. Scheffer and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare and timeless book that takes the reader beneath the ocean's surface to travel with a young sperm whale. With a new foreword by the author. "A writer of unusual grace and feeling ... This is a fine book". -- The New Yorker