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MARC recordEye of the whale: epic passage from Baja to Siberia / Dick Russell.
| Title: | Eye of the whale: epic passage from Baja to Siberia / Dick Russell. |
| Author(s): | Russell, Dick. |
| Date: | 2001. |
| Publisher: | New York: Simon & Schuster |
| Abstract: | Traces story of Charles Melville Scammon, whaling captain considered responsible for bringing gray whales to brink of extinction, after discovering Baja lagoons in Mexico in 1850s and 1860s. Author tracked migration of gray whales and retraces Scammon's journey from Mexico to California, Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Island, Alaska and Sakhalin. |
| Keywords: | 92 -- Biographies: Scammon, Charles Melville. 91(08) -- Expeditions. 599.513 -- Eschrichtiidae. 591.543.43 -- Animal migration. X -- Biographies and obituaries. (*49) -- Alaska. (73) -- United States. (*501) -- Russia (Federation). (*516) -- Sakhalin, Ostrov. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 599.513 : 591.543.43 |
| ISBN: | 0684866080 |
| SPRI record no.: | 165822 |
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