Book of Whales

The largest creatures ever to live remain the least seen. Frank Evers Beddard, a distinguished London zoologist writing in 1900, gathered everything science then knew of the great whales: blue and sperm, right and humpback, dolphins and porpoises, their anatomy, habits, and the puzzles they posed. It is a voyage into deep water at the very edge of discovery, told with a scholar's care and an explorer's awe. For ocean lovers and the endlessly curious, this is a dive into a vanished era of natural history. Take a breath and descend.