The Last Whales Author:Lloyd Abbey From Library Journal — Beneath shadowy fathoms the Northern Blue whale sounds a lonely call. In his time he has known many things: the sweet taste of red krill and the bitter taste of poisons unseen; the gentle touch of the fisher and the cruel hand of the Icelandic harpooneer. In a tale timeless as the ebb and flow of the tide, the Northern Blue... more » bull meets a Southern Blue cow. The whales mate in a world in the throes of warday's white winter, and generations later their descendants know the radiant warmth of a dying ocean. In prose lyrical as Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull , the last Blue whale "signalled constantly, alert for the call he knew would come." Read The Last Whales , lest the sonorous rumble quietens and the rare beauty of whalesong becomes an elegiac echo.--Mikey Scott, Torrey Pines H.S., Del Mar, Cal.« less