Listening to Whales

Listening to Whales

by | Oct 7, 2009 | Environment, Nonfiction

Rating:  Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, by Alexandra Morton. Ballantine Books (2002), 314 pages. Listening to Whales is part memoir and part nonfiction. It’s about whale and dolphin communication, the environment of coastal British...
The Golden Spruce

The Golden Spruce

by | Sep 11, 2009 | Environment, Nonfiction

Rating:  The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed, by John Vaillant.  W.W. Norton (2005), 255 pages. The Golden Spruce is the story of the total destruction of the coastal old-growth forests in British Columbia. The flap copy of the book...