Book
Into great silence : a memoir of discovery and loss among vanishing orcas
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807014462
- ISBN: 080701446X
- ISBN: 0807014354
- ISBN: 9780807014356
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Physical Description:
xvii, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 249). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The last one -- Place of first permission -- By beaver, by bear -- Lucky Star -- Whale camp -- First encounter -- Cut loose -- Into the labyrinth -- Memorize these things -- The survival value of exuberance -- Boys in blueberry season -- No passage out -- Vegans and carnivores -- Season of dead water -- Refugia -- When it happens -- Where the whales are -- Part of the darkness -- Into the ice, into the oil -- Groundings -- Beast and beauty -- Quiet sounds -- Scientific magic -- The whale called Eyak -- On being hushed and silent -- Tallying icebergs -- Wild horses, green skies -- Mercifully untranslatable -- Survivors -- A human silence -- In named and unnamed coves -- The smallest island -- It barely makes a sound -- Breathing in never-night -- Transients outside the box -- Uncommon language -- The poetry of predation -- Nine silences -- Into great silence -- Hunger -- More than we understand -- What the numbers say -- What the silence says -- Spaces between facts -- Silence as survival -- The story inside the flesh -- Snippets and transparencies -- The other world -- Where the seals are -- Book of changes -- Lament for Eyak -- In a language lost to us, Eyak is singing -- The spirit line. |
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| Homer Public Library | 599.536 [AKA_DUP] SAU (Text) | 000141747 | Ask Staff -- Duplicate | Available | - |
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