Mercado is a cognitive scientist and a 2023 fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation. He knows how certain sounds, such as whale ...

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 ...

Humans walked on the moon before we photographed a free-swimming whale beneath the surface of the ocean. Not until 1984, some 15 years after Neil Armstrong put down his lunar boot prints, did we ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Benji Davies’ “Storm Whale” children’s books are getting an animated adaptation from Lupus Films, the studio behind the adaptation of Judith Kerr’s “The Tiger Who Came to Tea.” Lupus are working on a ...

“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 ...