The Day The Whale Came

Author : Lynne Cox
Publisher : Orion
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-19
Category : Human-animal relationships
ISBN : 0753821419

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The Day the Whale Came by Lynne Cox Pdf

The real-life story of how the world's most famous female long-distance swimmer encountered a grey whale separated from its mother - and how she helped to reunite them. Lynne Cox is the author of 'Swimming to Antarctica', a memoir of her life as a swimmer. From the age of fourteen she has been breaking records for long-distance swimming, culminating in a mile-long swim in Antarctica, in zero degree-temperature water. When Lynne was 17, and on a training swim off the California mainland, she found herself swimming with a grey whale that had lost its mother. For the next seven hours, she swam with the whale - through pods of dolphin, and schools of sun-fish, between the pilings of a pier, and out to the base of an oil-rig, diving down as deeply as Lynne was able to, losing sight of the whale for minutes only to have it return and listen to its strange clicking and singing - in an increasingly desperate attempt to locate its mother. The whale was too young to survive by itself, and Lynne's account of the hours she spent swimming with it, and of the moment when they finally found its mother is remarkable. Heartwarming, beautifully-written, atmospheric and sparkling with descriptions of the ocean and the behavior of the magnificent creatures that live in it, 'The Day the Whale Came' is an unforgettable story of human resilience and natural wonder.

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Friendship
ISBN : PSU:000043779505

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The Day the Whale Came by Eve Bunting Pdf

When Captain Pinkney brings the carcass of a dead whale to Johnstown, Illinois, Tommy and his friend Ben go and pay to get a look.

Author : Lynne Cox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0156034670

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Grayson by Lynne Cox Pdf

The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother and had been following her instead, and relates her efforts to find the baby's mother.

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571278831

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How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes Pdf

This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the North Pole by the other animals who were jealous that she always won the annual beauty contest; the Hare has asked the moon to marry him but can never stretch his ears high enough to hear her reply; the Bee must sip honey all day long to sweeten the bitter demon that runs through his veins . . . each story is a delight for reading alone or aloud.

Author : D. Graham Burnett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226100579

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The Sounding of the Whale by D. Graham Burnett Pdf

Explores how humans' view of whales changed from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, looking at how the sea mammals were once viewed as monsters but evolved into something much gentler and more beautiful.

Author : Nick Bland
Publisher : Bright Light
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 1760509027

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Walk of the Whales by Nick Bland Pdf

When all of the whales in the ocean leave their home to walk around on land, people don't quite know what to think. But soon shopkeepers go out of business, farms are flooded with water and salt, and people shout horrible, anti-whale words. That is, until, a smart little girl decides to ask the whales what everyone can do to help. A powerful and entertaining story about the environment from best-selling author, Nick Bland.

Author : Karen Swann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534493957

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The Tale of the Whale by Karen Swann Pdf

A child and a whale embark on a beautiful journey together in this lyrical, gorgeously illustrated picture book about friendship, hope, and love for the world around us in the vein of The Fisherman & the Whale and Cynthia Rylant’s Life. Where land becomes sky and sky becomes sea, I first saw the whale and the whale first saw me. A child joins a friendly whale for a magical journey of discovery. They sail the blue ocean, dance with dolphins, and tail-splash seagulls. But the child also sees an ocean filled with plastic trash. And that inspires a promise of help, for the whale and all earth’s creatures.

Author : Mark Leiren-Young
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781771641944

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The Killer Whale Who Changed the World by Mark Leiren-Young Pdf

The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale — a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale was captured off the west coast of North America and displayed to the public in 1964. Moby Doll — as the whale became known — was an instant celebrity, drawing 20,000 visitors on the one and only day he was exhibited. He died within a few months, but his famous gentleness sparked a worldwide crusade that transformed how people understood and appreciated orcas. Because of Moby Doll, we stopped fearing “killers” and grew to love and respect “orcas.”

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781780311517

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Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo Pdf

An exciting historical adventure from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo.

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children and animals
ISBN : 1406315591

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This Morning I Met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo Pdf

At sunrise, young Michael spots a whale on the shores of the Thames and thinks he must be dreaming. But the creature is real and it has a message for him - one that only an open-minded child can deliver to the rest of the world.

Author : Daniel Hays
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565128095

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On Whale Island by Daniel Hays Pdf

After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married. But as it turned out, in the real world Daniel Hays felt lost. So he took his love for the sea and his need to escape civilization and pushed it further: he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia; built a tiny house; packed up his wife and stepson, two dogs, and three boatloads of supplies; and moved there. This is the story of fulfilling a fantasy: to live by your own rules and your own wits. And Daniel Hays, as readers of My Old Man and the Sea will remember, is well equipped to do both. He generates electricity from solar power and a terrifying windmill, funnels rainwater for their showers, creates a toilet seat out of a whale vertebra, strings their bed up on pulleys so that by day it can be lifted out of the way. For him, every morning is a wonder and every storm a blood-coursing thrill. But while Daniel loves this permanent boy's life, his wife longs for the life they left behind, and his spirited stepson is feeling isolated. Soon, their Swiss Family Robinson existence becomes a vision only Daniel can see. Funny, tender, and fascinating, filled with the details of an unconventional life, this is the story of how the Hays family lived on Whale Island, and how, finally, they had to leave.

Author : Jason Michael Colby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780190673093

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Orca by Jason Michael Colby Pdf

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

Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780684856230

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At the Water's Edge by Carl Zimmer Pdf

Everybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us. We all know about evolution, but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. Darwin's idea of natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution -- microevolution -- but it could only point us toward a complete explanation, still to come, of the engines of macroevolution, the transformation of body shapes across millions of years. Now, drawing on the latest fossil discoveries and breakthrough scientific analysis, Carl Zimmer reveals how macroevolution works. Escorting us along the trail of discovery up to the current dramatic research in paleontology, ecology, genetics, and embryology, Zimmer shows how scientists today are unveiling the secrets of life that biologists struggled with two centuries ago. In this book, you will find a dazzling, brash literary talent and a rigorous scientific sensibility gracefully brought together. Carl Zimmer provides a comprehensive, lucid, and authoritative answer to the mystery of how nature actually made itself.

Author : Charles Jones,John Beyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Blue whale
ISBN : 0936646012

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When the Whale Came by Charles Jones,John Beyer Pdf

Author : Rebecca Giggs
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781982120696

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Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs Pdf

Winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species. When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails), one that blends natural history, philosophy, and science to explore: How do whales experience ecological change? How has whale culture been both understood and changed by human technology? What can observing whales teach us about the complexity, splendor, and fragility of life on earth? In Fathoms, we learn about whales so rare they have never been named, whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity, and whales that have modified the chemical composition of our planet’s atmosphere. We travel to Japan to board the ships that hunt whales and delve into the deepest seas to discover how plastic pollution pervades our earth’s undersea environment. With the immediacy of Rachel Carson and the lush prose of Annie Dillard, Giggs gives us a “masterly” (The New Yorker) exploration of the natural world even as she addresses what it means to write about nature at a time of environmental crisis. With depth and clarity, she outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring, Fathoms “immediately earns its place in the pantheon of classics of the new golden age of environmental writing” (Literary Hub).