The Twilight Seas: A Blue Whale's Journey

Weybright and Talley, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9x5x0. Follows the life of a blue whale from his birth to his mating and untimely death at the hands of whalers. Sally Carrighar (1898–1985) was an American naturalist and writer. She is known for her series of nature books chronicling the lives of wild animals. Carrighar's work is based on years of observation. She spent seven years observing at Beetle Rock in California and ten years in the Arctic before writing her books. They are considered classics of nature writing and may be viewed as a specialized form of travel literature. She wrote eleven books during her life, the most popular of which was her first One Day on Beetle Rock (1944). One reviewer said of her first book: "There is no false sentiment here, no anthropomorphism—it is sound natural history. Yet only an artist could have succeeded so well. Critics said of her first two books that she was the most imaginative and poetic nature writer in this country, and like no one else who has ever written about animals, birds, and insects. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for general nonfiction in 1948 and again in 1949. These awards supported her projects in Alaska, where she lived for nearly a decade.