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Whales Books
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as whales)
avg rating 3.56 — 611,903 ratings — published 1851
Song for a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as whales)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,168 ratings — published 2019
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as whales)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,879 ratings — published 2018
Following Papa's Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as whales)
avg rating 3.78 — 698 ratings — published 2014
Breathe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as whales)
avg rating 3.88 — 928 ratings — published 2014
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whales)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,387 ratings — published 2008
If You Want to See a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whales)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,784 ratings — published 2013
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as whales)
avg rating 3.76 — 41,842 ratings — published 2003
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as whales)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,034 ratings — published 2000
The Whale in My Swimming Pool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as whales)
avg rating 3.90 — 908 ratings — published 2015
The Storm Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as whales)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,077 ratings — published 2013
Fathoms: The World in the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,997 ratings — published 2020
Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,160 ratings — published 2015
The Heart of a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 3.71 — 505 ratings — published 2020
The Storm Whale in Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,297 ratings — published 2016
Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,432 ratings — published 2015
The Blue Whale (Volume 1) (Endangered Animals, 1)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 4.27 — 785 ratings — published 2015
Whalefall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.68 — 29,241 ratings — published 2023
And the Ocean Was Our Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,773 ratings — published 2018
Whale in a Fishbowl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.83 — 641 ratings — published 2018
To the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 4.13 — 892 ratings — published 2015
Whale Trails, Before and Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.42 — 125 ratings — published 2015
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.59 — 675 ratings — published 2024
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,357 ratings — published 2022
Trapped!: A Whale's Rescue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.11 — 410 ratings — published 2015
Amos & Boris (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,945 ratings — published 1971
War of the Whales: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,679 ratings — published 2014
The Snail and the Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.38 — 10,483 ratings — published 2003
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whales)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,305 ratings — published 1987
We Leap Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 4.20 — 107 ratings — published
The Boy and the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 3.90 — 471 ratings — published 2017
Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,030 ratings — published 2002
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,638 ratings — published
I Lived Inside a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.33 — 526 ratings — published 2024
Little Whale (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 3.91 — 377 ratings — published
Emma and the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 3.66 — 293 ratings — published
A Big Guy Took My Ball! (Elephant & Piggie, #19)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,196 ratings — published 2013
Whales on Stilts (Pals in Peril, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,090 ratings — published 2005
The Whales' Song (English and Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.35 — 553 ratings — published 1990
Baby Beluga (Raffi Songs to Read)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,951 ratings — published 1983
The Little Butterfly That Could (A Very Impatient Caterpillar, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 4.07 — 847 ratings — published 2021
The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants (Audio CD)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 3.86 — 794 ratings — published 2019
The Fisherman & the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 4.17 — 397 ratings — published
Orca: The Whale Called Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 4.40 — 407 ratings — published 1981
A Small Blue Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 3.85 — 342 ratings — published 2017
The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 4.25 — 404 ratings — published 2013
“No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts. Let's just keep it that way for a while."
"So you don't really have a theory?"
"Clueless."
"You lying bag of fish heads."
"I can fire you, you know. Even if Clay was the one that hired you, I'm not totally superfluous to this operation yet. I'm kind of in charge. I can fire you. Then how will you live?"
"I'm not getting paid."
"See, right there. Perfectly good concept ruined by the application of fact.”
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
"So you don't really have a theory?"
"Clueless."
"You lying bag of fish heads."
"I can fire you, you know. Even if Clay was the one that hired you, I'm not totally superfluous to this operation yet. I'm kind of in charge. I can fire you. Then how will you live?"
"I'm not getting paid."
"See, right there. Perfectly good concept ruined by the application of fact.”
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
“I couldn't help wondering where porpoises had learned this game of running on the bows of ships. Porpoises have been swimming in the oceans for seven to ten million years, but they've had human ships to play with for only the last few thousand. Yet nearly all porpoises, in every ocean, catch rides for fun from passing ships; and they were doing it on the bows of Greek triremes and prehistoric Tahitian canoes, as soon as those seacraft appeared. What did they do for fun before ships were invented?
Ken Norris made a field observation one day that suggests the answer. He saw a humpback whale hurrying along the coast of the island of Hawaii, unavoidably making a wave in front of itself; playing in that bow wave was a flock of bottlenose porpoises. The whale didn't seem to be enjoying it much: Ken said it looked like a horse being bothered by flies around its head; however, there was nothing much the whale could do about it, and the porpoises were having a fun time. ”
― Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
Ken Norris made a field observation one day that suggests the answer. He saw a humpback whale hurrying along the coast of the island of Hawaii, unavoidably making a wave in front of itself; playing in that bow wave was a flock of bottlenose porpoises. The whale didn't seem to be enjoying it much: Ken said it looked like a horse being bothered by flies around its head; however, there was nothing much the whale could do about it, and the porpoises were having a fun time. ”
― Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
