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

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Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered circle of relatives of orcas
 
Ever since Eva Saulitis started her whale research in Alaska within the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended circle of relatives of endangered orcas struggling to continue to exist in Prince William Sound. Over the course of a decades-long career spent observing and studying these whales, and in the end coming to know them as individuals, she has, sadly, witnessed the devastation wrought by the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989—after which not a single calf has been born to the group. With the intellectual rigor of a scientist and the heart of a poet, Saulitis gives voice to these necessary yet vanishing survivors and the place they’re so loyal to. Both an elegy for one orca circle of relatives and a celebration of all of the species, Into Great Silence is a moving portrait of the interconnectedness of humans with animals and place—and of the responsibility we have now to offer protection to them.

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