The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century 豆 0.0分

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作者：D. Graham Burnett

出版社：University Of Chicago Press

出版日期：2013-01

ISBN：9780226100579

文件格式： pdf

标签： 自然 科学史 媒介史 外文

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Over the course of the twentieth century, our understanding of and relationship to whales underwent astonishing changes. With The Sounding of the Whale, D. Graham Burnett tells the fascinating story of the transformation of cetaceans from grotesque monsters, useful only as wallowing kegs of fat and fertilizer, to playful friends of humanity, bellwethers of environmental devasta...