Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

Susan Casey

Aug 2015 · Sold by Anchor

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a profound experience swimming with wild dolphins off the coast of Maui, the bestselling author of The Wave set out on a quest to learn everything she could about dolphins—the other intelligent life on the planet.

“Part science, part memoir, part impassioned plea for change.” —People 

Susan Casey’s journey takes her from a community in Hawaii known as “Dolphinville,” where the animals are seen as the key to spiritual enlightenment, to the dark side of the human-cetacean relationship at marine parks and dolphin-hunting grounds in Japan and the Solomon Islands, to the island of Crete, where the Minoan civilization lived in harmony with dolphins, providing a millennia-old example of a more enlightened coexistence with the natural world.
 
Along the way, Casey recounts the history of dolphin research and introduces us to the leading marine scientists and activists who have made it their life’s work to increase humans’ understanding and appreciation of the wonder of dolphins.

Ratings and reviews

This is a travelogue written by someone who likes dolphins. As a travelogue, it's very well written and entertaining. If you are looking for a dolphin themed travelogue, then look no further because you've stumbled upon one of the best. However I'd have to express some disappointment because when I found this book I was under the impression I was going to learn something about dolphins. I didn't. There were a couple meaty parts where I thought it was going to start delivering, but they were over quickly and never really said anything about dolphin intelligence that I didn't already know. I knew that dolphins are potentially highly intelligent animals, but I was hoping for some facts and reasons to support that. But most of this books is (skillfully) relaying the authors experiences from her dolphin related travels. It's a good read as a travelogue, just don't expect it to be a learning experience.

About the author

SUSAN CASEY, author of New York Times bestsellers The Wave and The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks, is the former editor in chief of O, The Oprah Magazine. She is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in the Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Sports Writing, and Best American Magazine Writing anthologies; and has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Outside, and National Geographic. Casey lives in Maui.