Soundings: Journeying to Alaska in the Company of Whales

"A gorgeous journey...You will be glad you've joined her." --Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience that "captures rarely observed natural places" (San Francisco Chronicle) a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska.In this "striking, brave[, ] and often lyrical" (The Guardian) blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Iñupiaq whale hunt and falls in love. Big-hearted, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey.

Author: Doreen Cunningham
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 07/11/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781982171803
ISBN10: 1982171804
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Environmentalists & Naturalists
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs