TY - BOOK AU - Ellis,Richard TI - The great sperm whale: a natural history of the ocean's most magnificent and mysterious creature SN - 9780700617722 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - QL737.C435 E437 2011 U1 - 599.5/47 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Lawrence, Kan. PB - University Press of Kansas KW - Sperm whale N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index; Physty -- Mr. Melville's whale -- Whence the sperm whale? -- The (un)natural history of the sperm whale -- The social lives of sperm whales -- Battle of the giants -- "I'll have the calamari -- " -- Making contact -- How to catch a whale -- The war on whales -- "Can leviathan long endure so wide a chase?" -- Appendix. The adventures of a whale painter ER -