KELLMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
The last one -- Place of first permission -- By beaver, by bear -- Lucky Star -- Whale camp -- First encounter -- Cut loose -- Into the labyrinth -- Memorize these things -- The survival value of exuberance -- Boys in blueberry season -- No passage out -- Vegans and carnivores -- Season of dead water -- Refugia -- When it happens -- Where the whales are -- Part of the darkness -- Into the ice, into the oil -- Groundings -- Beast and beauty -- Quiet sounds -- Scientific magic -- The whale called Eyak -- On being hushed and silent -- Tallying icebergs -- Wild horses, green skies -- Mercifully untranslatable -- Survivors -- A human silence -- In named and unnamed coves -- The smallest island -- It barely makes a sound -- Breathing in never-night -- Transients outside the box -- Uncommon language -- The poetry of predation -- Nine silences -- Into great silence -- Hunger -- More than we understand -- What the numbers say -- What the silence says -- Spaces between facts -- Silence as survival -- The story inside the flesh -- Snippets and transparencies -- The other world -- Where the seals are -- Book of changes -- Lament for Eyak -- In a language lost to us, Eyak is singing -- The spirit line
Summary:
Presents a scientist's study of one family of orca whales in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and the devastating effects of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on their ability to reproduce and survive, as she considers the long-term implications the spill has for Alaskan wildlife
