A Photographic Journey Back To Marineland Of The Pacific

Author : Jim Patryla
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781411671300

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A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY BACK TO MARINELAND OF THE PACIFIC by Jim Patryla Pdf

This beautifully illustrated book chronicles the history of world famous Marineland of the Pacific and features over 200 rare color and black & white photographs. A number of these historic Marineland images were selected from the author's own personal archive of original photographs, including the only known full color photographs taken of the actual birth of the world's very first killer whale ever to be conceived and born in captivity. Marineland of the Pacific opened in 1954 and during its reign as one of the premier tourist attractions in Southern California it managed to educate and entertain millions. 33 years later Marineland's controversial closing outraged a community and the world lost a truly remarkable institution. This one-of-a-kind collector's edition of facts and photographs will help to preserve Marineland's legacy of compassion, education and discovery.

Author : Ginger Garnett Clark
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738569208

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Rancho Palos Verdes by Ginger Garnett Clark Pdf

Long before Rancho Palos Verdes became the newest city on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, it was part of Rancho de los Palos Verdes, a seemingly worthless patch of oceanfront hill covered in brush fit only for shore whalers, smugglers, and cattle. Through forfeiture and foreclosure, the Bixby family from Maine acquired the peninsula and made the land profitable by diversifying-ranching, sharecropping with American field farmers, and renting land to Japanese flower and vegetable growers. New York financier Frank Vanderlip realized in 1912 the real estate potential of the hill's dramatic vistas and rugged cliffs and canyons. Over the years, three cities were created as tree-covered havens for horses and wildlife-islands of calm. But danger to this lifestyle lay in overdevelopment from the Los Angeles County-owned land encircling them. This, then, is the story of the fourth city, Rancho Palos Verdes, created in 1973 from county land and dedicated to keeping the peninsula green and underdeveloped, as Vanderlip envisioned.

Author : Suzi Forbes,Colour Library Books
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990-02-25
Category : Northwest, Pacific
ISBN : 0517001748

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Pacific Northwest by Suzi Forbes,Colour Library Books Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1970-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119091465

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Holiday by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : California
ISBN : UIUC:30112110965115

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Sunset by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexandra Morton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307487544

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Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton Pdf

In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by dropping a hydrophone into the tank of two killer whales. She recorded the varied language of mating, childbirth, and even grief after the birth of a stillborn calf. At the same time she made the startling observation that the whales were inventing wonderful synchronized movements, a behavior that was soon recognized as a defining characteristic of orca society. In 1984, Alexandra moved to a remote bay in British Columbia to continue her research with wild orcas. Her recordings of the whales have led her to a deeper understanding of the mystery of whale echolocation, the vocal communication that enables the mammals to find their way in the dark sea. A fascinating study of the profound communion between humans and whales, this book will open your eyes anew to the wonders of the natural world.

Author : Erich Hoyt
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781770854123

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Orca by Erich Hoyt Pdf

"Hoyt's passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries ...with grace, insight, wit--and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville." (Discover Magazine) Star performers in aquariums and marine parks, killer whales were once considered to be too dangerous to approach in the wild. Erich Hoyt and his colleagues spent seven summers following these intelligent and playful creatures in the waters off northern Vancouver Island, intent on dispelling the killer myth. Orca: The Whale Called Killer is Hoyt's exciting account of those summers of adventure and discovery, and the definitive, classic work on the orca or killer whale. The Free Willy films, inspired in part by Hoyt's pioneering writing about orcas, tell the story of a captive orca being returned to the wild. (Hoyt, in fact, recommended Keiko, the orca who became the star of Free Willy, to Warner Bros.) But Orca: The Whale Called Killer tells the true story of wild orcas befriending humans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : MINN:31951001464802L

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Esquire by Anonim Pdf

Author : David C. Powell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520239173

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A Fascination for Fish by David C. Powell Pdf

"This autobiography is a charming and accurate telling by a modest man whose brilliant career has allowed millions to venture into the sea and feel what Dave feels when he's underwater—without getting wet!"—John E. McCosker, Director Emeritus, Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco "Dave Powell is one of the giants in the development of the modern public aquarium. His great talents and skill have come from years of working with the technology of public aquariums, and also from a great love of the sea. This book is a wonderful tale of his adventures (and misadventures) as he worked to capture the essence of the ocean and bring it to public view."—Bruce Carlson, Director, Waikiki Aquarium, Honolulu "Gobies, jellyfish, coelacanth, white sharks—it's all here. A delightfully written book detailing the experiences of the most innovative aquarist of our time. This book is a must read for anyone fascinated by looking through an aquarium viewing window."—Jerry Goldsmith, Vice President, SeaWorld of California

Author : Kenneth Stafford Norris
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 9780557621750

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Mountain Time by Kenneth Stafford Norris Pdf

Scientist, teacher, author, and champion of the natural world, Dr. Kenneth S. Norris reveals the insights gained over a lifetime devoted to learning and teaching about the natural world and human nature, and the global environmental crisis we've helped to bring upon ourselves.

Author : Alexandra Morton
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735279667

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Not on My Watch by Alexandra Morton Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are saying to each other. She was lucky enough to get there just in time to witness a place of true natural abundance, and learned how to thrive in the wilderness as a scientist and a single mother. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her fisherman neighbours asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government explaining the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean farm pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't obey their own court rulings. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon and ultimately the whales--a story that reveals her own doggedness and bravery but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account for the sake of us all.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Aquarium fishes
ISBN : UCSD:31822008941536

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Aquarium Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Filmstrips
ISBN : WISC:89015339955

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Library of Congress Catalog: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : John Hargrove,Howard Chua-Eoan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466878815

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Beneath the Surface by John Hargrove,Howard Chua-Eoan Pdf

*Now a New York Times Best Seller* Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act. In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favorite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant orcas in SeaWorld. And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorld. Hargrove's journey is one that humanity has just begun to take-toward the realization that the relationship between the human and animal worlds must be radically rethought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112105058231

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Fortitudine by Anonim Pdf