War of the whales a true story
"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...
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2014.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a War of the whales : |b a true story / |c Joshua Horwitz. |
| 250 | |a First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Simon & Schuster, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a xviii, 426 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color), color map ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-399) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "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. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Whales |x Conservation. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Reynolds, Joel. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Balcomb, Kenneth C., |d 1940- |
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