Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist

Not all scientists live where they work, harvest their own subjects, or use information passed down from generation after generation of Inupiaq Eskimos to help learn about the bowhead whale. The arctic whale scientist Craig George is the son of the children’s author Jean Craighead George, and out on the ice with the whales and the whalers in Barrow, Alaska is where this Arctic whale scientist works. He has studied whales for nearly thirty years, and the mysteries these creatures hold never fail to amaze him. Join Craig at the top of the world, where the days and nights are long, the people full of stories, and the bowhead whale is at the centre of it all. AUTHOR: Peter Lourie is an author/photographer who has published more than twenty nonfiction books for young readers. Peter made four trips to the Arctic while researching and writing this book, and he was caught up in the enchantment of the Arctic, a seemingly desolate world, but really a complex place, rich in culture.