Into Great Silence

By Eva Saulitis,

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

Book description

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…

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1 author picked Into Great Silence as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I rarely find a book that captures the inner lives of wild animals and the strange, poignant ways they still can shape our human world. For many years, I fished in the waters Eva Saulitis writes of. I know the orca family she describes. Her writing is profoundly moving. I couldn't put it down.

From Rosemary's list on Alaska by Alaskans.

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