Soundings
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Soundings

Journeying to Alaska in the Company of Whales

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Soundings

Journeying to Alaska in the Company of Whales

About this book

“A gorgeous journey…You will be glad you’ve joined her.” —Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book

In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience that “captures rarely observed natural places” (San Francisco Chronicle) a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska.

In this “striking, brave[,] and often lyrical” (The Guardian) blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier.

A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Iñupiaq whale hunt and falls in love. Big-hearted, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Author’s Note
  5. Prologue
  6. 1. Los Angeles
  7. 2. UtqiaĔvik: AĔviq
  8. 3. Laguna Ojo de Liebre
  9. 4. UtqiaĔvik: How to Wait
  10. 5. Scammon’s Lagoon
  11. 6. UtqiaĔvik: Whale Snow
  12. 7. The Sea of CortƩs
  13. 8. UtqiaĔvik: Belonging
  14. 9. Palos Verdes to Monterey Bay
  15. 10. UtqiaĔvik: Doreen Kaleak
  16. 11. Depoe Bay to the San Juan Islands
  17. 12. UtqiaĔvik: Sounding
  18. 13. Glacier Bay
  19. 14. Return to UtqiaĔvik
  20. 15. Kodiak Island
  21. 16. Home
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. About the Author
  24. Notes
  25. Copyright