Among Whales

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ISBN-10:

0684802104

ISBN-13:

9780684802107

Author(s): Payne, Roger
Released: Jun 02, 1995
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
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Description:

Payne, an activist, romantic, explorer, and musician as well as the world's leading expert on whales, embraces a rich variety of subjects and disciplines in his presentation on the state of our knowledge about whales, touching on biology, sociology, cultural mythology, philosophy, and literature. He considers questions concerning the evolving composition of seawater, whales' songs, and the purpose of the human brain. The appendix offers a primer of ocean acoustics. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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