The Beluga Café: My Strange Adventure with Art, Music, and Whales in the Far North
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1578050820 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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a wonderful story This is a quite wonderful story. a music of words. ebbing and flowing between near-surreal and ultra-surreal with only a few intrusions of pure didactic rationalism. Buy it and read it.. Patricia Kramer said Who are we to say. This is a very powerful book. It is not the typical wilderness adventure book. Unlike the TV nature show, amazing things don't happen every few mintutes. In fact few amazing things happen at all, yet the whole experience of small wilderness experiences add up to a book that will take you to another place."It seems critical to me to devote some part of each ye. A well-intentioned effort but deeply disappointing Let me say that I love whales and dolphins (I've been reading about them for years and in Fall 2009 I did an internship with a whale research center in Northeast Quebec) and I love the North (I spent summers working in both Alaska and the Yukon) so I thought I would greatly enjoy this book. Though Nollman has a keen eye for nature's beauty and an admirable ca
A bouquet of purple lousewort flowers forms the eye From the whale's mouth issues a driftwood spiral as along as the whale's body, bound with features from a dozen or more bird species." The book will appeal most to animal-rights activists and readers wanting powerful descriptions of the Arctic wilderness.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. It is eight feet long, composed of tightly overlapping driftwood chips bleached shiny silver from years of alternating sun and water. The trio becomes even more intrigued on learning that the whales seem to be leaving their native habitat. "The whale takes my breath away. The book tracks the entire excursion from Nollman's efforts to get funds for the
Jim Nollman has been involved in animal communication research for 30 years and is known around the world for playing music with whales. In this true adventure story, Nollman and two artist friends set out for Canada's vast Mackenzie Delta, to make music with belugas - the elusive white whales of the Arctic.
He is the author of several books of nature writing, including The Charged Border: Where Whales and Humans Meet. Jim Nollman has been involved in animal communications research for thirty years and is known around the world for playing music with whales. He directs Interspecies Inc., a nonprofit organization that brings artists into wild places to transform human perceptions about habitat and animal