A year with the seals : unlocking the secrets of the sea's most charismatic and controversial creatures /
"It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them the perfect candidate for an environmental cause, as well as the subject of decades of study. Alix Morris spends a year with these magneti...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/Little, Brown and Company,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Sy Montgomery
- Preface
- Part one: Autumn. Map of northwest Atlantic ; A seal with something to say ; The traveling seal ; The seal bounty conspiracy ; The mimic
- Part two: Winter. Why did the seal cross the road? ; The graveyard of the Atlantic ; The corkscrew seal mystery ; Scamps or scapegoats?
- Part three: Spring. Map of Puget Sound, Washington ; Blubber busters ; The fish wars ; The chase ; The seal snatcher
- Part four: Summer. Pinnipeds as prey ; Wild Cape Cod ; War and peacebuilding ; The shape-shifter
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography.