Author: Various. Edited by Jane Billinghurst. Published by Raincoast Books, Vancouver, BC. , 2000, 1st Edition. Flat SIGNED by the Editor on the title page. Printed in Hong Kong. Like New Condition HARDCOVER BOOK, and Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 11.25 x 8.75 inch, 135 pages plus additional information pages.
THE SPIRIT OF THE WHALE, Legend, History, Conservation, Edited by Jane Billinghurst, celebrates the beauty, strength, and spirit of the whale with this unparalleled collection of narratives and images that take a comprehensive look at the whale.
It combines the many facets of the whale, including the unique human-whale relationship as explored through legends and myths, the whale's natural history, insidhts into the whaling industry, and how it treated the whale, naturalists' accounts, and the conservation issues concerning whales today, to truly capture the spirit of this magnificent animal.
