Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales: A Memoir (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781982171797)

"A gorgeous journey...You will be glad you've joined her." --Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book

In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience that "captures rarely observed natural places" (San Francisco Chronicle) a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska.

In this "striking, brave[, ] and often lyrical" (The Guardian) blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Ipiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier.

A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Ipiaq whale hunt and falls in love. Big-hearted, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey.

Author: Doreen Cunningham
ISBN-10: 1982171790
ISBN-13: 9781982171797
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2022 pg. 11
Library Journal 05/01/2022 pg. 95
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2022
Booklist 06/30/2022