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Gone Whaling : a Search for Orcas in the Northwest Waters by Hand, Douglas, 1951- is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Is

Who reads Gone Whaling : a Search for Orcas in the Northwest Waters?

Author

Hand, Douglas, 1951-

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671768409

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Science, Stem

Rating

3.72 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14