num_pages: 240
description: Mind in the Waters joins Mostert's Supership as this year's strongest ecological attack on idiocy &amp; greed, with McIntyre focusing on the slaughter of whales &amp; dolphins. She plunges the reader into the Cetacea family with great, great power. Her contributors include leading scientists in whale brain studies, neurology, societal habits; Arctic naturalist Farley Mowatt &amp; dolphinologist John Lilly; poets D.H. Lawrence, Pablo Neruda, Michael McClure etc.; &amp; scholars of whale myths in world literatures. Brain analysis indicates that whales perceive in all their senses at once; i.e., where human motor controls are in varied areas of the brain, the whale's overlap &amp; apparently are cross-stimulated, with results we can only imagine. Whales have very long lives (nobody knows for sure how long) &amp; have been in the oceans for 30 million years. This extraordinary collection goes beyond any studies yet published &amp; will appeal to a reader's imagination, intuition &amp; heart, &amp; should satisfy the scientific mind as well. Royalties from this thickly illustrated book will go to Project Jonah, a campaign for a world moratorium on the commercial killing of whales &amp; dolphins.--Kirkus (edited)
language: English
title: Mind in the Waters: A Book to Celebrate the Consciousness of Whales & Dolphins
titlecomplete: Mind in the Waters: A Book to Celebrate the Consciousness of Whales & Dolphins
genres: Nonfiction, Natural History, Science, Animals
ratings_count: 49
publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (NYC)