Whale NationThis astonishing evocation in verse and pictures of whales, dolphins, the ocean, the earth, and the universe invites all readers to share in a celebration of the whale and be touched by a call for compassion for these creatures and for the civilization built on the back of the whale. Full-color and black-and-white photographs. |
Common terms and phrases
acoustic American animal Antarctic Apetalk & Whalespeak Archaeoceti Azores baleen whale blubber blue whale boat body Bottlenose Dolphin Brachiosaurus brain calf Cassell catch Cetacean creatures Dolphins and Humans F. D. Ommanney feet long Fichtelius and Sverre film Fin Whale fish fishery flukes Follow the Whale frequencies Gollancz harpoon History hormones Hull Humpback Whale hundred Hutchinson industry Intelligence in Whales International Whaling Commission Itabashi Ivan J. P. Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin Japan Whaling Association Japanese Joan McIntyre Karl-Erik Fichtelius killed killer whales Lilly living London Lost Leviathan Lyall Watson mammals Man's Place meat million Morikuni Itabashi ocean orcas Percy planet plankton porpoise Scoresby Jnr F.R.S.E. ships Simo soap song sound Sperm Oil sperm whale spermaceti squid surface Sverre Sjölander swim Ted Crail teeth thousand tons top and bottom Tricia underwater Unilever weigh whale oil whalebone whalemeat whales have become whaling fleet wild dolphin York