
The Breath of a Whale
The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants
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Narrado por:
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Karen White
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Leigh Calvez
From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales.
Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures, including the familial orcas in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia; the migratory humpbacks; and the ancient, deep-diving blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. The lives of these whales are conveyed through the work of dedicated researchers who have spent decades tracking them along their secretive routes that extend for thousands of miles, gleaning their habits and sounds and distinguishing peculiarities. The author invites the listener onto a small research catamaran maneuvering among 100-foot-long blue whales off the coast of California; or to join the task of monitoring patterns of humpback whale movements at the ocean surface: tail throw, flipper slap, fluke up, or blow. To experience whales is breathtaking. To understand their lives deepens our connection with the natural world.
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Insightful!
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please learn Hawaiian words if using in audio format
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Horrible narrator ruins an amazing book.
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Amazing journey into the whale world
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Narration
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The Breath of a Whale
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Wonderful
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Unfortunately, the narration is robotic and not a great fit for the story.
Wonderful book
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The story meanders and does not follow a clear outline. The book as a whole feels more like a collection of essays than one single story. The author speaks of her own health challenges as a point to connect emotionally with whales but i don't feel like she told a complete story and every return to the theme of her leaving science or her health issues felt odd to me. I wish she had explored it more explicitly and tied it directly to the themes of the book. It's not that i didn't want to hear her story, but I felt confused about why she was telling us her story.
The science reporting consists more of showing us the day to day of what it's like to be on a research vessel tagging whales than teaching us what scientists know about whales. I would have enjoyed hearing more about experiments, shifting paradigms in marine mammalogy, and anatomical studies conducted on stranded individuals.
There is a strong emotional angle on conservation. I agree with the author's conviction that we need to do everything possible to respect and protect these fellow beings, and it makes me emotional as well, but I suspect some readers may be put off by the author's language around aspects of her interpretation of whale emotions and her own cosmology. That being said, the stories are heartfelt and I was moved to tears more than once.
Great tour of a few key cetaceans
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I couldn't handle the narration
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