Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator

Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
ISBN-10
0190673095
ISBN-13
9780190673093
Series
Orca
Category
Nature
Pages
394
Language
English
Published
2018-05-08
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Jason Michael Colby

Description

Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and the author's own family history, this is the definitive story of how the feared and despised "killer" became the beloved "orca", and what that has meant for our relationship with the ocean and its creatures

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