Whaling season : a year in the life of an arctic whale scientist / by Peter Lourie.

By:

Lourie, Peter [author.]

Material type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Audience:

Juvenile

ISBN:

9780618777099

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

599.5/276 22

LOC classification:

QL737.C423 L68 2009

Summary: Not all scientists live where they work, harvest their own subjects, or use information passed down from generation after generation of Inupiaq Eskimos to help learn about the bowhead whale. Arctic whale scientist Craig George is the son of childrens author Jean Craighead George, and out on the ice with the whales and the whalers in Barrow, Alaska is where this Arctic whale scientist works. He has studied them for nearly thirty years and the mysteries these creatures hold never fail to amaze him. Join Craig at the top of the world, where the days and nights are long, the people full of stories, and the bowhead whale is at the center of it all

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Idaho Springs Public Library	JNF	J 599.5 LOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	3ISPL00205592W

Not all scientists live where they work, harvest their own subjects, or use information passed down from generation after generation of Inupiaq Eskimos to help learn about the bowhead whale. Arctic whale scientist Craig George is the son of childrens author Jean Craighead George, and out on the ice with the whales and the whalers in Barrow, Alaska is where this Arctic whale scientist works. He has studied them for nearly thirty years and the mysteries these creatures hold never fail to amaze him. Join Craig at the top of the world, where the days and nights are long, the people full of stories, and the bowhead whale is at the center of it all

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