The great sperm whale : a natural history of the ocean's most magnificent and mysterious creature /
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| Author / Creator: | Ellis, Richard, 1938- |
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| Imprint: | Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2011. |
| Description: | xv, 368 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8467129 |
Table of Contents:
- Physty
- Mr. Melville's whale
- Whence the sperm whale?
- The (un)natural history of the sperm whale
- The social lives of sperm whales
- Battle of the giants
- "I'll have the calamari
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- Making contact
- How to catch a whale
- The war on whales
- "Can leviathan long endure so wide a chase?"
- Appendix. The adventures of a whale painter.
