Mind in the Waters: A Book to Celebrate the Consciousness of Whales and Dolphins [B1780]

1974 HCDJ 1st printing, Sierra Club, 11x9-inch, 240-pages, with minor wear. Edited from a Kirkus review: "Mind in the Waters joins Mostert's Supership as this year's strongest ecological attack on idiocy & greed, with McIntyre focusing on the slaughter of whales & dolphins. She plunges the reader into the Cetacea family with great, great power. Her contributors include leading scientists in whale brain studies, neurology, societal habits; Arctic naturalist Farley Mowatt & dolphinologist John Lilly; poets D.H. Lawrence, Pablo Neruda, Michael McClure etc.; & scholars of whale myths in world literatures. Brain analysis indicates that whales perceive in all their senses at once; i.e., where human motor controls are in varied areas of the brain, the whale's overlap & apparently are cross-stimulated, with results we can only imagine. Whales have very long lives (nobody knows for sure how long) & have been in the oceans for 30 million years. This extraordinary collection goes beyond any studies yet published & will appeal to a reader's imagination, intuition & heart, & should satisfy the scientific mind as well. Royalties from this thickly illustrated book will go to Project Jonah, a campaign for a world moratorium on the commercial killing of whales & dolphins." And from a 2015 Review by the Author: "I wrote this in the early 70's and it became an important part of the world-wide movement to stop the commercial killing of whales and dolphins. The book influenced a lot of people and caused them to think differently about saving species. There is a richness and wonder in the stories in the book which has drained out of the dialogue about "saving" nature, a dialogue now human centered and soulless. Read it, there is much to enjoy here."

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A beautiful book. Title makes its point: Sentience is not limited to human kind."; "This book was a good mix of fact and fiction about the natures and consciousnesses of whales and dolphins as well as about the study of these beings."; "This book should be read by anyone who has thought, or needs to think, about life on earth. We humans as the dominant species, because of one singular ability to manipulate destructive tools, need to be aware of our actual relationship with the rest of life on this planet, and of our own insufficiencies, explained with potency in this book."; "These lives matter. A wonderful book."