Namu, Quest for the Killer Whale
- ISBN-10
- 0943482003
- ISBN-13
- 9780943482002
- Category
- Nature / Animals / Marine Life
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Gryphon West Publishers
- Author
- Ted Griffin
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