The great sperm whale: a natural history of the ocean's most magnificent and mysterious creature
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Lawrence, Kan.
University Press of Kansas
2011
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 368 S. Ill. 27 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780700617722 0700617728 |
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PREFACE / ix
In Which the Author Eocplains Why and How He Wrote This Book,
Who Helped Him, and Who Didn't
i PHYSTY / 1
We Open with the True Story of the Fortuitous Rescue of a Baby
Sperm Whale from the Beach, and His Successful Return to the Sea
ii MR MELVILLE'S WHALE / 8
The Most Famous Whale in the Greatest American Novel, Brought
to Life Before Your Eyes by H Melville, R Ellis, and Others Too
Numerous to Mention; Star (in a Manner of Speaking) of Three
Movies; In Addition to Countless Television Documentaries, Spin-
offs, Rock Bands, Operas, and Comic Books
in WHENCE THE SPERM WHALE? / 55
From the Shadows of Deep Time Comes the Great Cachalot, Today's
Miraculous Paradigm of Adaptive Evolution
iv THE (UN)NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SPERM WHALE / 93
In Which We Meet the Great and Wondrous Sperm Whale, Deep-
Diving Champion, Vocalist, Teuthophage, and Source of Scrimshaw
andAmbergris
v THE SOCIAL LIVES OF SPERM WHALES / 143
Does the Animal with the Largest Brain of Any Animal That Has
Ever Lived Have a Complex Social Life? (What Do You Think?)
vi BATTLE OF THE GIANTS / 174
Wherein the Greatest Foes of the Depths Battle to the Death
(Or Do They?)
VII I 'LL HAVE THE CALAMARI / 191
The Sperm Whale's Menu Consists Almost Exclusively of Squid,
but Not Necessarily Giants
VIII MAKING CONTACT / 224
The Beginning (and the End) of the Sperm Whale Fishery, from the
Depths of the Seven Seas to the Poles, the Antipodes, and Elsewhere
ix How TO CATCH A WHALE / 240
A Veritable Instruction Manualfor the Capture and Processing of the
Sperm Whale, as Scribed by Herman Melville and Contemporaries
(Not to Mention the Japanese and the Soviets)
x THE WAR ON WHALES / 265
Around the World in Pursuit of Sperm Whales, Used in the
Manufacture of Oil, Meat, Margarine, Nitroglycerin, and Other
Valuable Products
xi CAN LEVIATHAN LONG ENDURE SO WIDE A CHASE? / 305
The Catastrophic Intermingling of the Lives of Men and Whales, with
the Unfortunately Inevitable Outcome for the Whales
APPENDIX THE ADVENTURES OF A WHALE PAINTER / 315
In Which We Follow the Career ofR Ellis, Whale Painter
Extraordinaire, from Denver (Denver?) to Buffalo (Buffalo?)
and (Finally!) New Bedford
References / 335
Index / 359
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