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The Year of the Whale

by Victor B. Scheffer

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin & James Costa

The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth by Andrew H Knoll

Sea Room by Adam Nicolson

Mapping the Deep by Robert Kunzig

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard

On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin & James Costa

The Song of the Dodo
by David Quammen

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by Andrew H Knoll

Sea Room
by Adam Nicolson

Mapping the Deep
by Robert Kunzig