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  • Whale Song

    Serie serien Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The sapiens of the sea, whales are the other intelligent, social, and loquacious animal. But they seem to swim away the more people chase after them in an effort to communicate and connect. Why does the meaning of their mesmerizing songs continue to elude us? In times of unprecedented ... Les mer

    21,63 kr

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  • Fathoms

    the world in the whale

    av Rebecca Giggs ...
    WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE NIB LITERARY AWARDFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONHIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATIONA SUNDAY INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR‘There is a kind of hauntedness in wild animals today: a spectre related to environmental change … ... ... Les mer

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    Discover a wiser way to live

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  • The Great Animal Orchestra

    Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

    av Bernie Krause ...
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  • The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

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  • The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

    "An astonishing, unconstrained exploration of the nature and practice of cetacean culture . . . a revolutionary book." —Philip Hoare, author of The WhaleIn the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks ... Les mer

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  • Sounds Wild and Broken

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  • Citizen Scientist

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  • Flight Ways

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