The great sperm whale
Subtitle: a natural history of the ocean's most magnificent and mysterious creature
By: Richard Ellis
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780700617722
Subjects: Sperm whale
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Physty
pagenum: 1; label: II
title: Mr. Melville's Whale
pagenum: 8; label: III
title: Whence the Sperm Whale?
pagenum: 55; label: IV
title: The (Un)Natural History of the Sperm Whale
pagenum: 93; label: V
title: The Social Lives of Sperm Whales
pagenum: 143; label: VI
title: Battle of the Giants
pagenum: 174; label: VII
title: "I'll Have the Calamari..."
pagenum: 191; label: VIII
title: Making Contact
pagenum: 224; label: IX
title: How to Catch a Whale
pagenum: 240; label: X
title: The War on Whales
pagenum: 265; label: XI
title: "Can Leviathan Long Endure So Wide a Chase?"
pagenum: 305; label: Appendix
title: The Adventure of a Whale Painter
pagenum: 315; title: References
pagenum: 335; title: Index
pagenum: 359