Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage From Baja To Siberia
Dick Russell
688 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1559630884
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Language: English
Publish: September 20, 2004
Eye of the Whale focuses on one great whale in particularthe coastal-traveling California gray whale. Gray whales make the longest migration of any mammal – from the lagoons of Baja California to the feeding grounds of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia (nearly 6,000 miles). That the gray whale exists today is nothing short of miraculous. Whaling fleets twice massacred the species to near extinction – first during the nineteenth century and again during the early part of the twentieth century.