From the writer from the Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales.

Leigh Calvez has spent twelve years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature’s most memorable creatures, including the familial orcas in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia; the migratory humpbacks; and the historic, deep-diving blue whales, approximately The Breath of a Whale: The Technology and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants the biggest animals on earth. The lives of the whales are conveyed through the work of dedicated analysts who have spent decades monitoring them along their secretive routes that expand for thousands of miles, gleaning their habits and noises and distinguishing peculiarities. The author invites the listener onto a small research catamaran maneuvering among 100-foot-long blue whales off the coast of California; or even to join the task of monitoring patterns of humpback whale motions at the ocean surface area: tail toss, flipper slap, fluke up, or blow. To experience whales is certainly breathtaking. To comprehend their lives deepens our reference to the natural globe.