Sightings: The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey (Adventure Press) - Hardcover

Peterson, Brenda; Hogan, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792279891 ISBN 13: 9780792279891

Publisher: National Geographic, 2002

Synopsis

Traces the lives of gray whales during their migrations between Alaska and Mexico, from their summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea to winter birthing lagoons in Baja, examining their rich history including the conflict between their hunters and environmental protectors. 25,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Linda Hogan is an American writer, academic, and environmentalist who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for her novel Mean Spirit. The Chickasaw Nation’s writer in residence, she has also been honored with an American Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Hogan lives in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. To learn more, visit lindahoganwriter.com.

Brenda Peterson is the bestselling author of more than 15 books, including Sightings: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey, Your Life Is a Book: How to Craft & Publish Your Memoir, and Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Huffington Post, among many other publications. To learn more, visit brendapetersonbooks.com.

From Booklist

The gray whale is probably the most watched of all the whales as their yearly migration along the Pacific coast brings them close to the many watchers on shore and in boats. Peterson, a nature writer, and Hogan, a Native American poet, spent seven years following the whales' migration and talking with people affected by the whales. The two voices of the authors are rendered in different type, with Hogan's more philosophical musing on the relationship between human and whale juxtaposed with Peterson's more reporterly presentation of gray whale natural history and of the people who interact with them. Starting with a visit to the calving grounds in San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, the authors socialize with the whales known as "friendlies" because they choose to approach people. Other sections follow the migration, showcase differing viewpoints on the Makah tribe's renewed hunting of whales and on aboriginal whaling in general, and discuss the summer home of the gray whales in the Arctic seas, where the whales feast and grow fat for their return journey south. Nancy Bent
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Edition details

• Publisher: National Geographic
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0792279891
• ISBN 13: 9780792279891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336