“Whale Fall,” by Elizabeth O’Connor (Pantheon Books, 2024) WHALE FALL Elizabeth O'Connor 224 pp. Pantheon. $27. Manod is 18 when her isolated Welsh island is disturbed, ...

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Whale’ Back. Print Friday, April 23, 2010 THE WHALE: IN SEARCH OF THE GIANTS OF THE SEA By Philip Hoare ECCO, 27.99, 464 pages, illustrated REVIEWED BY ...

Elizabeth O'Connor's spare and bracing debut novel Whale Fall opens with an isolated Welsh island on a precipice.It is September 1938, and the community's fishermen have begun encountering the ...

When the whale closes its mouth, the teeth of its lower jaw “fit,” Hoare informs us, “into its toothless upper mandible like pins in an electrical socket.” Hoare is always on the lookout ...

Accurate information in a child’s book on whales might even lead adults to abandon the biological fantasy of a water-spouting fish-whale—a sort of Moby Fish—that so annoys biologists.

Whale May Be Headed for Record Books A 50-ton bowhead whale killed off the coast of Alaska was carrying a projectile that experts say must have been fired from a shoulder gun in the late 1800s ...

It’s these four characters that are central to novelist Cheon Myeong-kwan’s Whale, first published two decades ago in South Korea. This is the author’s debut novel, which soon became one of ...

For more than 20 years, and at each individual event, JCLF’s Whale of a Used Book Sales have offered more than 80,000 gently used books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records and many more items. These sales ...

The Whale of a Used Book Sale has a 22-year history of offering more than 80,000 gently used ex-library books and donated books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records and many more items at each sale. These events ...