"A ... first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to serpent…
Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods drawn from po…
"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attit…
Peu de personnes peuvent se vanter de connaître autant les baleines et les phoques que Pierre-Henry Fontaine. Son secret est la passion qu'il voue à ces mammifères marins. Pour la comprendre, il faut imaginer l'auteur enfoncé jusqu'au ventre dans une baleine bleue échouée, dans …
Une nouvelle version enrichie de ce livre accessible à tous. Il est "le fruit d'observations, de travail sur le terrain, de récolte de spécimens et de la compilation d'informations puisées dans l'oeuvre de remarquables cétologistes". Fiches signalétiques, p. 279-410. Nombreuses …
"In this book, a blend of personal discovery, adventure, and scientific fact, Collet describes her encounters with whales, dolphins, and seals throughout the world's oceans. Collet conveys the aspects of her work with marine mammals, from the sublime gaze of a whale's eye to the…
"In this book, a blend of personal discovery, adventure, and scientific fact, Collet describes her encounters with whales, dolphins, and seals throughout the world's oceans. Collet conveys the aspects of her work with marine mammals, from the sublime gaze of a whale's eye to the…
