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Format:
Book
Title:
Among giants : a life with whales
ISBN:
9780226580999
Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm
Contents:
Introduction: My father rode a whale -- Coming of age -- Jim Darling on humpbacks -- In the wake of whales -- Hal Whitehead on sperm whales -- Life in the high arctic -- Glenn Williams on the high arctic -- Crisis in the oceans -- Jon Stern on TK -- Imaging the future -- Bruce Mate on tracking technologies.
Summary:
One of the world's leading cetacean photographers describes his life photographing whales around the world, revealing their compexity and diversity and the continued threats to their existence from the whaling industry and environmental pollution.
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