Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths by Lord, Nancy

Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781582431512)

Vendor: Nancy Lord
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Format: Hardcover
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Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths by Lord, Nancy

Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths

$29.00
Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths by Lord, Nancy

Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths

$29.00
Format: Hardcover
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Living in waters adjacent to Anchorage, Alaska, the beluga whales of Cook Inlet are an isolated and genetically distinct population. Thought to number more than 1000 in the early 1990s, a sharp population decline has brought them near extinction. Original in approach and incisive in its questions, Beluga Days explores how conservation laws, management policies, and human behaviors have affected the shrinking beluga population. From hunters, regulators, environmentalists, researchers, and businesspeople to whale enthusiasts, Lord encounters an ongoing debate wrestling with the immediate need to protect the whales, as well as a respect for the centuries-old tradition of Native subsistence hunting. Beyond its compelling characters and particulars, Lord's story offers readers a deeper understanding of the often uncomfortable, often rewarding, juxtaposition of humans and the natural world.

Author: Nancy Lord
ISBN-10: 1582431515
ISBN-13: 9781582431512
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2003
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.51w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/22/2003 pg. 51
Booklist 01/01/2004 pg. 800
Booksense '76 Jan/Feb 2004 01/01/2004 pg. 1
Library Journal 01/01/2004
By Nancy Lord
By Nancy Lord
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Nancy Lord lives in Homer, Alaska. From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she's explored in both fiction and nonfiction the myths and realities of life in the north.

Among her published books are three collections of short stories and five works of literary nonfiction, including the memoir Fishcamp, the cautionary Beluga Days, and the front-lines story of climate change, Early Warming. Lord was honored as Alaska Writer Laureate for 2008-10, a term during which she traveled throughout the state to promote Alaska writers, writing, and libraries.

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