Horwitz, Joshua, frey50
War of the whales : a true story / Print Joshua Horwitz. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - New York Simon & Schuster 2014 - xviii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm Hardback book.
"July 2014"--Title page verso. Color maps on lining papers.
"The tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the U.S. Navy's best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound--and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth"--Amazon.com.
9781451645019 1451645015
Reynolds, Joel.
Balcomb, Kenneth C., 1940-
United States. Navy --Environmental aspects.
Whales--Effect of sound on.
Sonar--Environmental aspects.
Whales--Stranding.
Whales--Conservation.
333.9595 Hor 9
War of the whales : a true story / Print Joshua Horwitz. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - New York Simon & Schuster 2014 - xviii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm Hardback book.
"July 2014"--Title page verso. Color maps on lining papers.
"The tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the U.S. Navy's best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound--and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth"--Amazon.com.
9781451645019 1451645015
Reynolds, Joel.
Balcomb, Kenneth C., 1940-
United States. Navy --Environmental aspects.
Whales--Effect of sound on.
Sonar--Environmental aspects.
Whales--Stranding.
Whales--Conservation.
333.9595 Hor 9