Colonialism, culture, whales the cetacean quartet

Presentación del editor: "Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods dra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Huggan, Graham, 1958- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [London] : Bloomsbury Academic 2020
Colección:Environmental cultures series
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  • Last whales: eschatology, extinction, and the cetacean imaginary in Winton and Pash
  • Sperm count: the Scoresbys and the north
  • Killers: orcas and their followers
  • Kind of blue; or, the infinite melancholy of the whale.