is a must-have for nature enthusiasts, environmentalists, and marine life lovers. This book is an excellent general introduction that’s full of fascinating facts and fabulous four-color photographs. It presents scientific insights and information in a way that is both readable and highly enjoyable for a popular audience.  (less)

and the selfish 80's a band of castaways tries to keep alive a dream of freedom and friendship.As they sail the west coast, smuggling drugs aboard an old schooner they begin to share powerful night-time visions. As Lucky describes it, ""It felt to me as if each night after we all eventually went to bed, made love, watched the stars or whatever we did to relax, as sleep approached, our minds merged - connected across the moonlit spaces by strands of ectoplasm or electrical fields or sub-real particles we will not discover for a thousand years. Then the orcas would come and give us a ride. Images and strange liquid sounds tumbled through our brains. Memories, maybe; someone's memories. Maybe our own if the biologists are right that we were once fish. Mostly it was just flashes of shorelines seen from the water, or long, murky stretches when the eyes were of no use and they had senses we didn't. And always there was the star, beckoning as though we could swim right off the planet."""  (less)

and charts, oceanography and navigational tools, intrepid explorers and researchers have followed the ocean's pathways and created some of their own. Now it's your turn. This book is the key to a journey - your journey. One teeming with science and adventure, facts and fun, danger and intrigue. A journey that includes diving deep in a submarine, docking a container ship, migrating with right whales, and hunting with sharks. From the ocean floor to the North Pole, the whole ocean awaits you. Are you ready to dive in?  (less)

a mother whale about to give birth, she sets off a chain of events that changes the course of her life forever.  (less)

Quebec, of Canada or to secede on their own./ppThe James Bay Cree consider Hydro Quebec's mad plans to engineer and dam the vast ecosystem where they have lived for centuries an affront to their own right to control their land./ppThe Labrador Innu are struggling with both the federal and provincial governments to protect their traditional hunting territories from threats imposed by military training flights and mineral exploration./ppAll of these are challenges. As the Native peoples of Canada are meeting them, asserting their right to make choices for themselves, they stand steadfastly on the land from which flow their inherent rights to self-determination./ppWe are not willing to be bystanders and spectators. We are not willing to have our political status once again determined by others.br-- Zebedee Nungak, President of Makivik, representing Inuit of Northern Quebec/ppGreat Whale is only a symptom. The attempted dispossession of my people, and the purported extinguishment of our rights, is the cause.br-- Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Cree/ppThe real solution to the problems that face the Innu people is recognition by Canada and Newfoundland of our rights, rights to our land and our way of life. We can not and will not settle for anything less.br-- Daniel Ashini, Director of Innu Rights and Environment for the Innu Nation/p  (less)