Volume 22, Number 12 · July 17, 1975
Save the Whales!
By J.Z. Young
Mind in the Waters
assembled by Joan McIntyre
Scribners/Sierra Club, 240 pp., $14.95
The Whale: Mighty Monarch of the Sea
by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, by Philippe Diolé, translated by J.F. Bernard
Doubleday, 304 pp., $9.95
Dolphins
by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, by Philippe Diolé, translated by J.F. Bernard
Doubleday, 304 pp., $12.95
The Whale Problem: A Status Report
edited by William E. Schevill
Harvard University Press, 419 pp., $12.50
The Blue Whale
by George L. Small
Columbia University Press, 248 pp., $3.95 (paper)
The sea is in a sense our last frontier, and the whales the rulers of it, whom we are in danger of displacing, just as we have displaced the Indians and the buffaloes that they hunted. The hunting and gathering stage of man's evolution ended on land some 10,000 years ago, but it continues still today in the sea. So far we have only managed to exploit its resources, not to cultivate them. The neolithic revolution is only just beginning to reach the sea. Yet the oceans occupy a far larger proportion of the earth's surface than the land and they nourish a life of quite staggering richness and variety.
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