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| Prologue: "Whales of Passage" | 19 | |
| Ch. 1 | Close Encounter at San Ignacio Lagoon | 29 |
| Ch. 2 | The Whaler Who Became a Naturalist | 54 |
| Ch. 3 | The Poet and the Saltworks War | 66 |
| Ch. 4 | The Makah Tribe: Hunting the Gray Whale | 91 |
| Ch. 5 | A Tribal Elder and the Gray Whales | 114 |
| Ch. 6 | Return to La Laguna | 136 |
| Ch. 7 | Journey to the Pillars of Salt | 159 |
| Ch. 8 | Whale Watches: The Scientist and the Artist | 179 |
| Ch. 9 | Sound Check: Echoes from Magdalena Bay | 197 |
| Ch. 10 | Orcas and Grays Along the Shores of Monterey | 221 |
| Ch. 11 | Oregon and Washington: Scholars of the Great Migration | 249 |
| Ch. 12 | The Kill | 273 |
| Ch. 13 | Whalemen of Vancouver Island | 293 |
| Ch. 14 | Alaskan Journey: Beginnings | 317 |
| Ch. 15 | Whales in Strange Places: Kenai, Kodiak, and Unimak Pass | 337 |
| Ch. 16 | Into the Bering Sea | 359 |
| Ch. 17 | Among the Hunters as Bering Strait | 385 |
| Ch. 18 | To the Diomedes: Life on the Edge | 411 |
| Ch. 19 | Sakhalin Island: Last of the Western Grays | 430 |
| Ch. 20 | Breakthrough Across Troubled Waters | 463 |
| Ch. 21 | Catastrophe in Chukotka | 477 |
| Ch. 22 | Northern Coda: End of the Expedition | 508 |
| Ch. 23 | Christopher Reeve and the Gray Whale | 517 |
| Ch. 24 | Scientific Puzzles in San Diego | 536 |
| Ch. 25 | Mysterious Evolutions | 559 |
| Ch. 26 | Scammon's Legacy | 583 |
| Ch. 27 | Victory at San Ignacio Lagoon | 608 |
| Epilogue: An Uncertain Future | 625 | |
| Notes | 635 | |
| Other Sources Consulted | 655 | |
| Useful Web Sites | 657 | |
| Acknowledgments | 659 | |
| Index | 663 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Reva Schreuer
reviewed Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage from Baja to Siberia on February 26, 2012
Eye of the Whale
I read this book because I'm headed to San Ignacio next week and hoped to learn more about the whales. But this book is about the humans, about how the author reacts to the whales, how whalers in the 1800s reacted to the whales, how the Mexicans react to the whales, how the Siberian and Alaskan first people react to the whales, the scientists that study the whales. There are poems and art and singing school children. Very little about the whales themselves.
This book is all about the "I" of the author and his emotional journey and how he felt looking into the eye of the whale. And with this kind of book you need to really like the author because it's all about him and I didn't. It doesn't help that I see a pattern that people involved with whales as being very star struck, very concern with celebrity -- then I had lunch with Lauren Hutton, the I spent two hours with Christopher Reeves, two days with Bobby Kennedy, Pierce Brosnan was very pissed -- and I just don't care.
I just wish there was more about the gray whales in this book.
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Add Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage from Baja to Siberia, Once Called A Devilfish by nineteenth-century whalers, the great gray whale was long viewed with mystery, awe, and terror; now it is more often seen as the friendly whale, an inspiration to the whale-watching industry. In this book, Dick Russell follo, Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage from Baja to Siberia to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage from Baja to Siberia, Once Called A Devilfish by nineteenth-century whalers, the great gray whale was long viewed with mystery, awe, and terror; now it is more often seen as the friendly whale, an inspiration to the whale-watching industry. In this book, Dick Russell follo, Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage from Baja to Siberia to your collection on WonderClub |
