A New York Times Bestseller
Inspired by a profound experience swimming with wild dolphins off the
coast of Maui, Susan Casey set out on a quest to learn everything she
could about these creatures. Her journey takes her from a community in
Hawaii known as "Dolphinville," where the animals are seen as the key to
spiritual enlightenment, to the dark side of the human-cetacean
relationship at marine parks and dolphin-hunting grounds in Japan and
the Solomon Islands, to the island of Crete, where the Minoan
civilization lived in harmony with dolphins, providing a millennia-old
example of a more enlightened coexistence with the natural world.
Along the way, Casey recounts the history of dolphin research and
introduces us to the leading marine scientists and activists who have
made it their life's work to increase humans' understanding and
appreciation of the wonder of dolphins--the other intelligent life on
the planet.