The Year of The Whale Author:Victor B. Scheffer A fictional account of the life of a sperm whale. From the preface: "This story of a sperm whale is fiction based on fact. Some of the human characters that appear in it are real, if disguised; others are not real, though they could be. The other whales, the porpoises and dolphins, the fishes and squids, the seabirds, the weather, the kinds of... more » ships, the floating wreckage, the icebergs, the oceanic islands belong to the environment of a sperm whale. . . ."« less