Whale: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

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Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay Best, therefore, withhold any amazement at the strangely gallied whales before us, for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals (Hardcover)

Book Review: ‘Whalefall,’ by Daniel Kraus - The New York Times Book Review: ‘Whalefall,’ by Daniel Kraus - The New York Times

Pods, human as well as cetacean, come up repeatedly in Doreen Cunningham’s debut, Soundings, a striking, brave and often lyrical book that defies easy interpretation. It’s the story of a single mother and her two-year-old son, Max, and their journey to follow the whales that migrate from Baja California to the Arctic. But this is not really a work of natural history. Mother and son are in a state of turmoil and, like the whales they pursue, must navigate an environment that appears callous, if not hostile, and rely on friendship to get by. The experiences of the alienated pair are inseparable from their literary quarry, and as they travel up the Pacific coast, whale and human cultures seem to converge, eroding the gap between ourselves and our distant mammalian cousins.