Selected readings for the whale-curious visitor — Azores
Whaling in the Azores
● Clarke, Robert. Open boat whaling in the Azores: the history and present methods of a relic industry. (1954)
● Garcia, José Carlos. A Indústria Baleeira dos Açores. (2021)
● Henriques, Francisco. A Baleação e o Estado Novo. Industrialização e organização corporativa. (2016)
● Koehler, Wulf H. From Whale Hunting to Whale Watching Memories of Whaling on São Miguel, Azores. (2014)
● Lee, Lance R. and Bruce Halabisky. Twice Round The Loggerhead: The Culture of Whaling in the Azores. (1999)
● Neves-Graça, Katja. “A Whale of a Thing: Transformations from Whale Hunting to Whale Watching in Lajes do Pico.” (2002)
Popular nonfiction titles
● Cacucci, Pino. The Whales Know: A Journey Through Mexican California. (2014)
● Giggs, Rebecca. Fathoms: The world in the whale. (2020)
● Hoare, Philip. Leviathan: Or, the whale. (2008)
● Mustill, Tom. How to speak whale: A voyage into the future of animal communication. (2022)
● Pyenson, Nick. Spying on whales. (2018)
● Riley, Peter. Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger. (2022)
● Whitehead, Hal. The cultural lives of whales and dolphins. (2014)
Whale science/academic titles
● Bryld, Mette Marie and Nina Lykke. Cosmodolphins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals and the Sacred. (2000)
● Burnett, D. Graham. The sounding of the whale: science and cetaceans in the 20th century. (2013)
● Carwardine, Mark. The handbook of whales, dolphins and porpoises. (1995)
● Epstein, Charlotte. The Power of Words in International Relations Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse. (2008)
● Kalland, Arne. Unveiling the Whale: discourses on whales and whaling. (2009)
● Neves-Graça, Katja. “A Whale of a Thing: Transformations from Whale Hunting to Whale Watching in Lajes do Pico.” (2002)
● Sakakibara, Chie. Whale Snow: Iñupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska. (2020)
● Still, Robert, Hugh Harrop, Tim Stenton & Luís Dias. Europe’s sea mammals. (2019)
Fiction
● de Melo, José Dias. Pedras Negras. (1964)
● Gadenne, Paul. La Ballena. (1949).
● Hogan, Linda. People of the Whale. (2008)
● Ihimaera, Witi. The whale rider. (1987)
● Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick, or, the whale. (1851)
● Tabucchi, Antonio. The Woman of Porto Pim. (1983)