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Watching Giants: The Secret Lives of Whales by Elin Kelsey Publisher Comments Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, Watching Giants opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses. Elin Kelsey's colorful first-person account, drawing from... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Humpbacks of Hawai'i: The Long Journey Back by Paul H. Forestell Synopsis Recreational excursions to view marine mammals are among the most visible, accessible, and popular of human activities in the marine environment, with the increasing transition from whale killing to whale watching a particularly hopeful result. During... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Grayson by Lynne Cox Publisher Comments This captivating bestseller tells the true story of a miraculous encounter between a teenaged girl and a baby whale off the coast of California. It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was swimming her last half mile back to the pier after a long workout... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Dolphins by Mark Carwardine Publisher Comments A stunning and revealing book about these extraordinary mammals, including discussions on the healing powers dolphins are said to hold and their often close relationship with humans. 270 colour photographs.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us by Alexandra Morton Publisher Comments In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound with CD (Audio) by David Rothenberg Publisher Comments Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence-not in outer space but right here on earth. Thoughtful, richly detailed, and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.50 Used - Book W/Audio Cd
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Orca: Visions of the Killer Whale by Peter Knudtson Publisher Comments <div>The orca, also known as the killer whale, is one of the most intriguing and mysterious animals in the world. This lavishly illustrated portrait of this almost mythical sea mammal offers visions of the orca throughout the ages and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Operation Orca: Springer, Luna and the Struggle to Save West Coast Killer Whales by Daniel Francis Publisher Comments Winner of Forword Magazine's Best Nature Non-Fiction Award. In 1964 when the Vancouver Aquarium obtained its first killer whale, Moby Doll, the prevalent attitudes towards killer whales was that they were fierce and vicious man-eaters. Over the years... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest by Sy Montgomery Publisher Comments Scientists call them Inia geoffrensis, an ancient species of toothed whale whose origin dates back about 15 million years. To the local people of the Amazon, pink river dolphins are "botos," shape shifters that, in the guise of human desire, can claim... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads by Scott D. Kraus Publisher Comments In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist later recalled, "like finding a brontosaurus in the backyard." Until that time, scientists believed the North... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett Publisher Comments In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me. Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths by Nancy Lord Publisher Comments Living in waters adjacent to Anchorage, Alaska, the beluga whales of Cook Inlet are an isolated and genetically distinct population. Thought to number more than 1000 in the early 1990s, a sharp population decline has brought them near extinction... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Whales of the World by Nigel Bonner Publisher Comments With their haunting ocean "songs" and gushing spouts, whales great or small inspire awe. Though their impressive size and might protect them from most natural dangers, intensive hunting by humans has put them right at the top of the conservation agenda... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.20 Used - Trade Paper
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The Presence of Whales: Contemporary Writings on the Whale by Frank Stewart Publisher Comments An observer, storyteller, and lover of whales gathers the most compelling contemporary essays on cetaceans by both marine scientists and nature writers, including Diane Ackerman, Barry Lopez, Farley Mowat, Faith McNulty, and Jonathan White, in a stunning... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Charged Border: Where Whales and Humans Meet by Jim Nollman Publisher Comments Master of music and cetaceans, Jim Nollman takes us to the charged border, a luminous crack between sky and sea where relations between humankind and wildness take on sacred meaning. After a dolphin round-up that has darkened a cove in the Sea of Japan... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Complete Whale-Watching Handbook: A Guide to Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the World by Angus Wilson Publisher Comments The Complete Whale-Watching Handbook is a spectacular celebration of whales, porpoises, and dolphins, and of the immense diversity of opportunities to view these spectacular marine mammals in the wild. Once the stuff of fishermen's yarns and literary... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bottlenose Dolphins by Paul Thompson Publisher Comments This top-selling series introduces readers to the wild creatures of the world and has been expanded to include the wonders of the natural world, too. All titles have sturdy paper binding, are 10x9, and contain from 72-84 pgs and 50-60 color photos.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wisdom of Dolphins by Susan E Yoder Synopsis Humans can bring dolphins' wisdom into everyday practices through simple meditations. The authors also provide many resources to guide readers further in knowing about and being with dolphins.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beluga Days: Tales of an Endangered White Whale by Nancy Lord Publisher Comments A search for the endangered beluga whales of Cook Inlet, Alaska, becomes a personal journey and an expose of the forces arrayed against this fascinating--and troubled--species.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin by Samuel Turvey Publisher Comments The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 became a major news story and sent shockwaves around the world. It made a romantic story, for the baiji was a unique and beautiful creature that features in many... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $23.95 Sale - Hardcover
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