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The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
The Sounding of the Whale Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
Author: D. Graham Burnett
From the Bible?s ?Canst thou raise leviathan with a hook?? to Captain Ahab?s ?From Hell?s heart I stab at thee!,? from the trials of Job to the legends of Sinbad, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, confusion, and mystery. — In the twentieth century, however, our understanding of and relationship to ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226100579
ISBN-10: 022610057X
Publication Date: 9/24/2013
Pages: 824
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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