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Whale Song by Margret Grebowicz, Professor is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Whale Song about?

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The sapiens of the sea, whales are the other intelligent, social, and loquacious animal. But they seem to swim away the more people chase after them in an effort to communicate and connect. Why does the meaning of their mesmerizing songs continue to elude us? In times of unprecedented environmental and social loss, Whale Song ponders the problems facing ocean ecosystems and offers lessons from those depths for human social life and intimacy. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. * ** Review "Writing with the clarity and precision of a dolphin’s clicks, Grebowicz covers the history of the sometimes-futile attempts by humans to communicate with whales, dolphins, and other ocean dwellers. Humans could learn much from the dispassionate language of these creatures, whose sonar and other forms of long-range sonic communication is, by necessity, without deceit." ― Alvin Lucier, Composer " Whale Song is just the music of the earth we need now. Margret Grebowicz is listening to our Terran cousins in the rising storm." ― Donna Haraway, a

Who reads Whale Song?

Author

Margret Grebowicz, Professor

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501329289

Category

science

Subjects

Anthropology, Psychology, Literary Criticism

Rating

3.89 / 5 (286 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14