ISBN:
0792279891
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 286 S
,
Ill
,
23cm
DDC:
599.5221568
Keywords:
Gray whale Pacific Coast (North America)
;
Endangered species Pacific Coast (North America)
;
Makah Indians Hunting
;
Gray whale Pacific Ocean
;
Effect of human beings on
;
Gray whale Migration
;
Pacific Ocean
;
Gray whale Effect of human beings on
;
Pacific Ocean
;
Pazifischer Ozean Ost
;
Grauwal
;
Tierwanderung
;
Tierbeobachtung
;
Makah
;
Walfang
Abstract:
Verlagsinfo: On a Pacific odyssey from Mexico to Alaska in pursuit of the mysterious gray whale, Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson create a vivid tapestry of poignant stories and plainspoken science. Their two voices, that of an award-winning Native American writer and an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and naturalist, interweave the diverse strands of legend and lore, science and symbolism, wonder and controversy inspired by gray whales, which migrate 10,000 miles each year and have twice been hunted to the brink of extinction. The authors also address the three-way collision between the whales and their countless champions, the curtailed but still destructive whaling industry, and the tribal whaling rights of Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest who have resumed their traditional hunt. Sightings is a lyrical celebration of our eternally elusive yet irresistible kinship with the strange and surprising gray whale.
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon052/00054882.html
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