Among Whales

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Simon And Schuster
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition

Description: 431 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers 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.

ISBN: 9780684802107