Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
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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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- 2018-05-01
- 368 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press
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- 2018-05-01
- 368 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press
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- 2020-04
- 408 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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