Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas

Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas - Paperback

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Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas - Paperback

Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas - Paperback

by Eva Saulitis
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by Eva Saulitis (Author)

Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas

Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas struggling to survive in Prince William Sound. Over the course of a decades-long career spent observing and studying these whales, and eventually coming to know them as individuals, she has, sadly, witnessed the devastation wrought by the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989--after which not a single calf has been born to the group. With the intellectual rigor of a scientist and the heart of a poet, Saulitis gives voice to these vital yet vanishing survivors and the place they are so loyal to. Both an elegy for one orca family and a celebration of the entire species, Into Great Silence is a moving portrait of the interconnectedness of humans with animals and place--and of the responsibility we have to protect them.

Author Biography

Eva Saulitis has studied whales in Prince William Sound, the Kenai Fjords, and Alaska's Aleutian Islands for the past twenty-four years. In addition to her scientific publications, her essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in numerous national journals, including Orion, Crazyhorse, and Prairie Schooner. The author of the essay collection Leaving Resurrection and the poetry collection Many Ways to Say It, she teaches at Kenai Peninsula College, in the low-residency MFA program at the University of Alaska, and at the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. She lives in Homer, Alaska.

Number of Pages: 268
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: February 25, 2014
ISBN9780807014462
Author Eva Saulitis
PublisherBeacon Press
GenreBiography, Hobbies & interests, and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages268
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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