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The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
D. Graham Burnett
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| #1187473 in Books | 2012-01-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x2.20 x6.00l,2.78 | File type: PDF | 824 pages||13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Great, but for unexpected reasons|By Michael W. Konrad|This is a great book, but maybe not for the reason you think. I thought it was a book about whales (which it is literally) but it's really about humans. Humans hunted whales for money and whale scientists studied the whales. After a few years the scientists realized that the hunters were killing far more than was sustaina||
"A sweeping, important study of cetacean science and policy. . . . [Burnett] spent a decade poring over thousands upon thousands of pages scattered in far-flung archives. If the whale swallowed Jonah whole, then Burnett has made a considerable effort to g
From the Bible’s “Canst thou raise leviathan with a hook?” to Captain Ahab’s “From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!,” from the trials of Job to the legends of Sinbad, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, confusion, and mystery.
In the twentieth century, however, our understanding of and relationship to these superlatives of creation underwent some astonishing changes, and w...
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