New Book by Nature Writer Has Chapter on Makah

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A new book by nature writer and environmental journalist Brenda Peterson

is coming out May 25, 2000 entitled Singing to the Sound. Peterson is the

author of 10 books, including the award-winning Living by Water, Pacific

Northwest: Land of Light and Water (with photographer Art Wolfe) and the

forthcoming Sightings : The Migrations of the Gray Whale for National

Geographic Books, due out in 2001. Her new anthology with Toni Frohoff,

Ph.D. is on dolphins, due out Feb. 2002 from Sierra Books.

 

Highlights ~ Singing to the Sound

 

*Behind-the-scenes negotiations between moderate Makah and

conservationists from 1996-2000 on whale hunt. Intertribal and U.S.

federal politics on whaling. B.C. response to Makah whaling.

 

*Interview with OrcaLab researchers in B.C. who study orcas through

underwater hydrophones

 

*Water pollution, contaminated cetaceans, and possible environmental

solutions

 

Early Review: " Brenda Peterson is amazing, a soulful and profound observer

of the oceans and its creatures - from whale to human - in all their glory

and distress. I eagerly await her books, knowing that any drama that

inspires her is bound to fascinate me, because she always brings the

natural world into focus with her sparkling vision. "

~ Diane Ackerman, author of The Moon by Whale Light and Natural

History of the Senses

 

From the publisher: Singing to the Sound

 

This passionate yet contemplative collection of nature stories is

the long-awaited sequel to Brenda Peterson's popular classic Living by

Water first published in 1990. >From her two decades on the shores of

Puget Sound, Peterson now advances her " Love song for a region, " (Seattle

Times) into a new century. An acclaimed nature writer, Peterson's

literate, lyrical writing moves from stately reporting to memoir.

 

Singing to the Sound reveals darker and more troubled waters - from the

Makah whale hunt to the feared extinction of Northwest salmon. For the

first time in book form, Peterson unravels the complexities of the highly

controversial Makah whale hunt - the first off U.S. mainland shores in

nearly a century. As mediator and reporter (Seattle Times) of this

international story for five years, Peterson now writes as historian with

an eye for the future of both people and whales. She moves beyond the

polarized view of " Indians versus environmentalists " to portray a

multi-faceted, human drama with no easy answers to a story that is still

unfolding.

 

Peterson asks her readers to look at our land, waters, and wildlife

in a new way, one that is interconnected, compassionate, and mature.

Singing to the Sound moves from love song to prophecy, from the way things

are to a vision of what they might be.

 

Brenda Peterson is a nature writer, environmental journalist, and

the author of three novels, one of which, Duck and Cover, was selected as

a New York Times " Notabl e Book of the Year. " Her four works of

non-fiction include the Library Journal's Editor's Choice book Living by

Water and Pacific Northwest: Land of Light and Water (with photographer

Art Wolfe). Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Sierra, Utne

Reader, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, and Orion: People and Nature. She

is currently at work on a National Geographic book on the gray whale and

an anthology on dolphins with Toni Frohoff, Ph.D. for Sierra Books.

Peterson lives on Puget Sound.

 

Singing to the Sound is available now from NewSage Press in Troutdale,

Oregon.

A special discount is offered to MARMAMers of $17.50 for the original

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Also see reviews on Amazon.com

 

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