This was one of the more harrowing books I’ve ever read. In the tradition of Susan Orlean and Donovan Hohn, Voices in the Ocean is a thrilling, compassionate, imperative account of the other intelligent life on the planet. Casey’s reportage takes her to the harrowing epicentre in the Solomon Islands, and to the Japanese town of Taiji, made infamous by the Oscar–winning documentary The Cove, where she chronicles protests against the annual slaughter of dolphins. Yet dolphins are also the subjects of a sinister lucrative global trade. Casey visits a Hawaiian community that believes dolphins are the key to enlightenment travels to Ireland to meet ‘the world’s most loyal dolphin’, and visits Crete to explore the ancient Minoans’ interdependence on the animals. It inspired her on a two-year global adventure to learn about these beautiful animals. In 2010, following her father’s death, Susan Casey had a remarkable encounter with a pod of spinner dolphins off the coast of Maui. But these playful aquatic creatures are also mysterious: scientists still don’t fully understand their sophisticated navigation and communication abilities, or their complicated brains. Blurb : Since the dawn of history, humans have felt a kinship with dolphins.
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