Sounding
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.43 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1497638542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He has lived most of his life on, under, or over the ocean, having been a world-cruising yachtsman, underwater photographer, and navy flier. He lives in Gig Harbor, Washington, with his wife, Bunny.. His novel Pilgrim Project became Robert Altman’s film Countdown. Novelist and screenwriter Hank Searls
"Just as good Just as good 30 years later I had read this close to 30 years ago when in the service and loved it i couldn't put it down and read it in about a day and a half. finding it just as good when rereading it today as i had back around 1990. if you love the sea and it's creatures this will be a great read for you. 0 years later" according to s clark Moab. I had read this close to Just as good 30 years later I had read this close to 30 years ago when in the service and loved it i couldn't put it down and read it in about a day and a half. finding it just as good when rereading it today as i had back around 1990. if you love the sea and it's creatures this will be a great read for you. 0 years ago when in the service and loved it i couldn't put it down and read it in about a day and a half. finding it just as good when rereading it today as i had back around 1990. if you love the sea and it's creatures this will be a great read for you. Wonderful It starts out a little slow, developing the story but then you're hooked as more characters get involved. A worthy read for animal lovers and for those who have an other worldly view of life. I loved it.. "A WHALE OF A TALE" according to Joseph R. Calamia. SOUNDING by Hank Searls is without a doubt; "A whale of tale!" I first read this book some 20 years(+) ago. The first edition showed the fluke of a whale as it started it's souding. I have always been interested in things of the ocean and of course, I immedietly bought the book.I recalled the basic story line after 20 some odd years, and although I had forgotten the specifics, I remembered what a fasinating and enjoya
Everyone has lost hope—until they hear the whales sounding above. Once a Cetacean epic told the tale of man and whale swimming together in harmony. Can these ancient times be revisited? Experience what the Los Angeles Times called “ a rare success.”. The young sonar officer of an accidentally sunken Russian spy submarine teetering on a rocky seamount off New York prepares to die with the lovely ship’s surgeon and the rest of his shipmates. “He had a brain biologically identical to man’s but seven times its weight and volume,” writes Hank Searls of a massive, aging sperm whale whose compassion, fear, and anger at man’s attacks on his kind drives the bestselling novelist’s intricately researched classic Sounding
From the Inside Flap SOUNDING takes us into the extraordinary mind and emotions of the magnificent sperm whale, an aging bull roaming the waters of the Atlantic. Troubled and separated from his herd, the whale wants to fulfill his one obsessive desire -- to communicate with the human race and learn why they can be both vicious hunters and frolicking playmates.Far away, on a doomed Russian nuclear submarine, Lieutenant Peter Rostov, the sonar officer and a classical musician, is spending what he's sure are his last days listening to the beautiful "sounding" of the whale.In the amazing climax to this unique novel, man and whale come together -- and a magnificent destiny is fulfilled."Searls is remarkably eloquent. you'll sta