Can a killer whale born and raised in captivity be released into the wild to become free-living and accepted into... Read ...

THE WHALE: IN SEARCH OF THE GIANTS OF THE SEA By Philip Hoare ECCO, 27.99, 464 pages, illustrated REVIEWED BY EMILY COLETTE WILKINSON ’’Ah the world, oh the whale!” Like Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick,” ...

“The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea” (HarperCollins, 453 pages, $27.99), by Philip Hoare: A subject as big as the whale demands a book as broad as “The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In Joyce Wan’s 2015 picture book, The ...

I took a while to read Fathoms: The World in the Whale, the debut of Australian writer Rebecca Giggs. Owing that its European publication date was pushed back due to the disparate realities of ...

Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems, a new book from the University of California Press (December 2006), explores an aspect of whale ecology that until now has received surprisingly little attention ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...

IRVINE – Alexandra Uhl has loved a lot of books in her 24 years as the owner of A Whale of a Tale Children’s Bookshoppe. But there’s only one that sums up how she’s feeling this week. The story is ...

This is the story of Chunhui, or the Girl of Spring who, decades after her death, is celebrated as the Red Brick Queen. This is also the story of Chunhui’s mother Geumbok, whose dogged pursuits, ever ...

“Moby-Dick” is often viewed as a singularly American creation. Part of the beguiling genius of “The Whale,” a rhapsodic meditation on all things cetacean, is that Philip Hoare so suggestively explores ...