Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage From Baja To Siberia

Dick Russell, a longtime environmental journalist, is a recipient of the Chevron Conservation Award and the author of The Man Who Knew Too Much (Carroll & Graf, 2003) and Black Genius: And the American Experience (Carroll & Graf,1999). He divides his time between Los Angeles and Boston.

PART I.
Prologue: "Whales of Passage"
Chapter 1. Close Encounter at San Ignacio Lagoon
Chapter 2. The Whaler Who Became a Naturalist
Chapter 3. The Poet and the Saltworks War
Chapter 4. The Makah Tribe: Hunting the Gray Whale 
Chapter 5. A Tribal Elder and the Gray Whales 
Chapter 6. Return to La Laguna 
Chapter 7. Journey to the Pillars of Salt 
Chapter 8. Whale Watchers: The Scientist and the Artist 
Chapter 9. Sound Check: Echoes from Magdalena Bay 
Chapter 10. Orcas and Grays Along the Shores of Monterey 
Chapter 11. Oregon and Washington: Scholars of the Great  Migration 
Chapter 12. The Kill 
Chapter 13. Whalemen of Vancouver Island 
 
Part II.
Chapter 14. Alaskan Journey: Beginnings 
Chapter 15. Whales in Strange Places: Kenai, Kodiak, and Unimak  Pass 
Chapter 16. Into the Bering Sea
Chapter 17. Among the Hunters at Bering Strait 
Chapter 18. To the Diomedes: Life on the Edge
Chapter 19. Sakhalin Island: Last of the Western Grays 
Chapter 20. Breakthrough Across Troubled Waters 
Chapter 21. Catastrophe in Chukotka 
Chapter 22. Northern Coda: End of the Expedition 
 
Part III.
Chapter 23. Christopher Reeve and the Gray Whale
Chapter 24. Scientific Puzzles in San Diego
Chapter 25. Mysterious Evolutions
Chapter 26. Scammon's Legacy
Chapter 27. Victory at San Ignacio Lagoon
 
Epilogue: An Uncertain Future
Notes
Other Sources Consulted
Useful Web Sites
Acknowledgments
Index