The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants

Authors: Calvez, Leigh
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
BISAC/Subject: NAT001000, NAT025000, NAT020000, NAT046000
ISBN: 9781632171870, Related ISBNs: 1632171864, 1632171872, 9781632171863, 9781632171870
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 240,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A powerful ode to marine life and the natural world, these illuminating essays reveal the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean—home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales

Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures, including the familial orcas in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia; the migratory humpbacks; the ancient, deep-diving blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. The lives of these whales are conveyed through the work of dedicated researchers who have spent decades tracking them along their secretive routes that extend for thousands of miles, gleaning their habits and sounds and distinguishing peculiarities.
 
Calvez author invites the reader onto a small research catamaran maneuvering among 100-foot long blue whales off the coast of California; or to join the task of monitoring patterns of humpback whale movements at the ocean surface: tail throwflipper slapfluke up, or blow. To experience whales is breathtaking. To understand their lives deepens our connection with the natural world.
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