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Moby Dick: How Scientists Came to Love the Whale

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

English - October 04, 2013 03:00 - 1 hour - 73.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
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How was our understanding of whales transformed from grotesque monsters, useful only as wallowing kegs of fat, to playful friends of humanity and bellwethers of environmental devastation? Burnett, a historian of science and energetic polymath, offers a sweeping history of how science, politics, and simple human wonder have transformed our way of seeing these behemoths from below.