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Author Ellis, Richard, 1938-

Title The great sperm whale : a natural history of the ocean's most magnificent and mysterious creature / Richard Ellis.

Publication Info. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2011]
©2011

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  599.547 ELLIS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  599.5 EL59    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  599.5 ELL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  599.547 ELL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  599.547 ELLIS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  599.547 ELL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  599.54 EL59    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  599.547 ELLIS    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  599.547 ELL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  599.5 ELLIS    Check Shelf

Description xv, 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-358) and index.
Contents Physty -- Mr. Melville's whale -- Whence the sperm whale? -- The (un)natural history of the sperm whale -- The social lives of sperm whales -- Battle of the giants -- "I'll have the calamari -- " -- Making contact -- How to catch a whale -- The war on whales -- "Can leviathan long endure so wide a chase?" -- Appendix. The adventures of a whale painter.
Subject Sperm whale.
ISBN 9780700617722 cloth alkaline paper
0700617728 cloth alkaline paper
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