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Voices in the ocean a journey into the wild and haunting world of dolphins / Susan Casey.

Casey, Susan, 1962- (author.).

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"While swimming off the coast of Maui, Susan Casey was surrounded by a pod of spinner dolphins. It was a profoundly transporting experience, and it inspired her to embark on a two-year global adventure to explore the nature of these remarkable beings and their complex relationship to humanity. Casey examines the career of the controversial John Lilly, the pioneer of modern dolphin studies whose work eventually led him down some very strange paths. She visits a community in Hawaii whose adherents believe dolphins are the key to spiritual enlightenment, travels to Ireland, where a dolphin named as "the world's most loyal animal" has delighted tourists and locals for decades with his friendly antics, and consults with the world's leading marine researchers, whose sense of wonder inspired by the dolphins they study increases the more they discover. Yet there is a dark side to our relationship with dolphins. They are the stars of a global multibillion-dollar captivity industry, whose money has fueled a sinister and lucrative trade in which dolphins are captured violently, then shipped and kept in brutal conditions. Casey's investigation into this cruel underground takes her to the harrowing epicenter of the trade in the Solomon Islands, and to the Japanese town of Taiji, made famous by the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, where she chronicles the annual slaughter and sale of dolphins in its narrow bay. Casey ends her narrative on the island of Crete, where millennia-old frescoes and artwork document the great Minoan civilization, a culture which lived in harmony with dolphins, and whose example shows the way to a more enlightened coexistence with the natural world" -- provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780345804846
  • ISBN: 0345804848
  • Physical Description: xiv, 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Anchor Books edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 361-365).
Subject: Dolphins > Behavior > Popular works.
Dolphins > Effect of human beings on > Popular works.
Human-animal relationships > Popular works.

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Voices in the Ocean : A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
Voices in the Ocean : A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
by Casey, Susan
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Table of Contents

Voices in the Ocean : A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
A Note on Dolphin Speciesp. xiii
Prologue: Honoluap. 1
Chapter 1The Meaning of Waterp. 17
Chapter 2Babies in the Universep. 40
Chapter 3Clappy, Clappy!p. 66
Chapter 4The Friendliesp. 92
Chapter 5Welcome to Taijip. 116
Chapter 6A Sense of Selfp. 154
Chapter 7High Frequencyp. 176
Chapter 8The World's Endp. 207
Chapter 9Greetings from Hawaii: We're Having a Blast!p. 250
Chapter 10Change of Heartp. 282
Chapter 11Therap. 308
Acknowledgmentsp. 335
Notesp. 339
Selected Bibliographyp. 361
Photography Creditsp. 367

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