Sightings The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey

On a Pacific Odyssey from Mexico to Alaska in pursuit of the mysterious gray whale, Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson create a vivid and varied tapestry of poignant stories and plainspoken science. Their two voices, that of an award-winning Native American writer and an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and naturalist, interweave the diverse strands of legend and lore, science and symbolism, wonder and controversy inspired by the gray whales, which migrate 10,000 miles each year and have twice been hunted to the brink of extinction. The authors also address the three-way collision between the whales and their countless champions, the curtailed but still destructive whaling industry. and the tribal whaling rights of Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest who have resumed their traditional hunt. Sightings is a lyrical celebration of our eternally elusive yet irresistible kinship with the strange and surprising gray whale. Book jacket.

Brenda Peterson is the author of River of Light, Becoming the Enemy, and Duck and Cover, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She lives in Seattle, Washington Linda Hogan is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Lannan Fellowship. A prolific essayist on environmental issues, the lives in the mountains of Colorado