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Voices in the Ocean

A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

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Voices in the Ocean

De: Susan Casey
Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
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From Susan Casey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and The Devil’s Teeth, a breathtaking journey through the extraordinary world of dolphins

Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have felt a kinship with the sleek and beautiful dolphin, an animal whose playfulness, sociability, and intelligence seem like an aquatic mirror of mankind. In recent decades, we have learned that dolphins recognize themselves in reflections, count, grieve, adorn themselves, feel despondent, rescue one another (and humans), deduce, infer, seduce, form cliques, throw tantrums, and call themselves by name. Scientists still don’t completely understand their incredibly sophisticated navigation and communication abilities, or their immensely complicated brains.

While swimming off the coast of Maui, Susan Casey was surrounded by a pod of spinner dolphins. It was a profoundly transporting experience, and it inspired her to embark on a two-year global adventure to explore the nature of these remarkable beings and their complex relationship to humanity. Casey examines the career of the controversial John Lilly, the pioneer of modern dolphin studies whose work eventually led him down some very strange paths. She visits a community in Hawaii whose adherents believe dolphins are the key to spiritual enlightenment, travels to Ireland, where a dolphin named as “the world’s most loyal animal” has delighted tourists and locals for decades with his friendly antics, and consults with the world’s leading marine researchers, whose sense of wonder inspired by the dolphins they study increases the more they discover.

Yet there is a dark side to our relationship with dolphins. They are the stars of a global multibillion-dollar captivity industry, whose money has fueled a sinister and lucrative trade in which dolphins are captured violently, then shipped and kept in brutal conditions. Casey’s investigation into this cruel underground takes her to the harrowing epicenter of the trade in the Solomon Islands, and to the Japanese town of Taiji, made famous by the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, where she chronicles the annual slaughter and sale of dolphins in its narrow bay.

Casey ends her narrative on the island of Crete, where millennia-old frescoes and artwork document the great Minoan civilization, a culture which lived in harmony with dolphins, and whose example shows the way to a more enlightened coexistence with the natural world.

No writer is better positioned to portray these magical creatures than Susan Casey, whose combination of personal reporting, intense scientific research, and evocative prose made The Wave and The Devil’s Teeth contemporary classics of writing about the sea. In Voices in the Ocean, she has written a thrilling book about the other intelligent life on the planet.

©2015 Susan Casey (P)2015 Random House Audio
Aire libre y Naturaleza Animales Biología Ciencia Ciencias Biológicas Cerebro humano Inspirador

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“Casey transports us through the many truths and myths about dolphins…. Painstakingly researched and gorgeously written, Voices in the Ocean provides textbook-depth education that is based on Casey’s years of swimming the open seas with dolphins, interviews with leading experts and protectors, and harrowing trips to the nether reaches of the globe where horrific brutalities occur.”―USA Today

"[W]hat starts out as a feelgood, new-agey account darkens like the sunlight diminishing in the deep, subtly turning into a devastating chronicle of one of the most egregious mismatches in natural-human history. The result is a brilliantly written and passionate book.... timely and urgent." --The Guardian

"A meticulously reported global odyssey during which [Susan Casey] sets out to answer the simple question: why do dolphins elicit such intense emotions and behaviors in humans? . . . Fans of Casey's writing know that she has an inexhaustible curiosity and a knack for fully embracing her subject."―Outside Magazine

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Revealing!

I’m quite knowledgeable about dolphins and learned even more about the atrocities the various species of cetaceans have endured. I’m puzzled by the term “pod” used throughout. Dolphins are in social groups, not pods. Typically these groups fall into three categories: nursery groups of females and calves, juvenile groups with males and females doing their “teen stuff” prior to adulthood, and paired males. As learned as the author seems, I cringed every time I heard the word “pod.” That said, this is a must read for animal lovers. No, for everyone. Read it and weep.

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Delightful

The narrator was one of the very best I have heard. She even used accents for the many different foreign voices. And the writing and thinking are wise and eloquent. Maybe one of my favorite books.

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Fresh perspective, disturbing, and hopeful

If you love the sea, or are simply curious about different perspectives, this is a very interesting listen.

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Moving, Insightful, Emotional

What did you love best about Voices in the Ocean?

It was an epic journey into the world of cetacean intelligence and the history of interactions between us and them. I loved the straightforwardness and feeling like you were on a journey with Susan.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Voices in the Ocean?

When she went to Greece; I am personally from Greece and so I could easily visualize her experiences there.

What does Cassandra Campbell bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

There was definitely emotion reflected in her tenor.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yess

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Loved it

I learned a lot. The narration was excellent and relaxing. It never lulled but was paced so beautifully. I highly recommend this book.

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Fabulous

I learned so much from this book. very knowledgeable and precise. A must read for any human.

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Informative

This book is engaging and infuriating. The state of dolphin trafficking is as outrageous as human trafficking. Not necessarily an uplifting book, but educational.
The narrators voice is annoying and pretentious. I’ve heard several other books she’s narrated and thought the same thing each time, but, she’s better than she is bad, so, she gets 3 stars.

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haunting, beautiful.

I loved so many things about this book. The narration was wonderful, and the story will stick with me forever. It was a beautiful, informative, heartbreaking and inspirational account of dolphins. I think in some ways this book had changed how I see the world, but most of all has really given me a new insight and appreciation for dolphins and their kin. So glad I stumbled upon this book.

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Probably the coolest and best book on dolphins


This book is both and enlightening and realistic and yet still not cheesy yet still holds the spiritual mythos behind dolphins um it's also quite sad regarding the cove and other sad things that have been happening dolphins for thousands of years

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Wowed!

What a beautiful read, full of exploration! The ocean is Earths gem & we must protect it.

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