The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century by D. Graham Burnett

The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

D. Graham Burnett

824 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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, c...

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