Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
10 best books like Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas (Eva Saulitis): Here and Now and Then, Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, The Gift, A Night to Remember, Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, Under the Udala Trees, Killer In The Pool, Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
To save his daughter, he'll go anywhere—and any-when…
Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in I.T., trying to keep the spark in his marriage, and struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career as a time-traveling...
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
| Author | David Kirby |
| ISBN | 1250002028 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and Animal Factory—a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America’s most beloved marine mammal park.
Death at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 1571313354 |
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together...
| Author | Hafez |
| ISBN | 0140195815 |
More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Tongue of the Invisible."
With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's...
| Author | Walter Lord |
| ISBN | 0805077642 |
First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanic's fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers and crew, both noble and ignominious. Some sacrificed their lives, while others fought like animals for their own survival. Wives beseeched husbands...
Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
| Author | John Hargrove |
| ISBN | 1137280107 |
*Now a New York Times Best Seller*
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened,...
| Author | Alexandra Morton |
| ISBN | 0345442881 |
In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by...
| Author | Chinelo Okparanta |
| ISBN | 0544003446 |
Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria....
Reading this was so heartbreaking. I can't help but cry when I read the cruel ways humans treat/treated orcas. Why are we so selfish as a species? All we care about is ourselves and this essay just highlights that when it talks about our history with orcas, Tilikum the orca in particular.
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| Author | David Neiwert |
| ISBN | 1468308653 |
The orca—otherwise known as the killer whale—is one of earth’s most intelligent animals. Remarkably sophisticated, orcas have languages and cultures and even long-term memories, and their capacity for echolocation is nothing short of a sixth sense. They are also benign and gentle, which...
