Biologist Hanne Strager first met orcas as a student volunteering as the cook on a small research boat in Norway's Lofoten Islands. That trip became decades of work with killer whales, and this book follows her around the world to tell how people have feared, hunted, admired and protected them.
Strager travels from the Arctic waters of northern Norway to Greenland, Vancouver and Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, pairing her own encounters with current science on orca behavior, family life and ecology. Conservation photographer Paul Nicklen contributes the foreword and photographs.
A thoughtful companion to Orcas: Our Shared Future, on view at the Natural History Museum through April 25, 2027.
- By Hanne Strager, foreword and photographs by Paul Nicklen
- Hardcover, 280 pages
- Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
- Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award
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