What a delightful, fascinating book! 

After a fateful kayak trip where he finds himself underneath a flying whale, Tom Mustill set out to learn everything he could about how animals communicate with each other and if humanity might someday hope to communicate with them too. 

Part fact sharing , part story telling, and part love letter to cetaceans, this book pulled me right back down the rabbit hole of the incredible mystery that is whales. I very much enjoyed the personal and secondhand anecdotes as well as the walk through humans' history with cetaceans. I do wish we had spent a bit more time on the new and upcoming technologies that are allowing humans to inch closer to understanding the communication patterns of other species because that was all super interesting too. 

It was a bit long/repetitive at times and could have used another round of fact checking but overall this was an enjoyable read and I came out of it with a whole list of other books to read and people to research.