WHALE

By Jeremy Lucas

Very good in dust-wrapper.

From the collection of well-known big game and saltwater angler Jack Reece, with his angling bookplate tipped in.

1981 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 223mm). Pp172. Map end-papers otherwise not illustrated. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

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"In the North Minch between Scotland's mainland and the Hebrides, Sabre the Killer Whale is born. This book is the story of his life, from the moment his parents lift him to the ocean's surface so that he can breathe, to the day he takes over the leadership of his own pod of whales. It describes a perpetual struggle for survival against deadly hunters - the deadliest being man. It draws us into adventures of courage and endurance alongside creatures of great intelligence, allowing us to witness with startling clarity their savage and wily hunt for food and the remarkable care and devotion they show towards one another. From the time Sabre's father is destroyed by a .44 calibre bullet, we see him mature into a graceful and lethal giant. He and his mother join the Great School for the migration to South Africa and he learns fierce discipline from Forkfin, its battle-scarred master, so that the whales, playing and rolling on the growling breakers, can suddenly be called into a controlled convoy. By Sabre's third summer off the coast of Africa, he has grown too large and competitive for his teacher and sets off alone towards the arctic circle. There, crushed by a mammoth ice-fall, Sabre will face death, and the heart of the mighty Spraylash will lurch as she hears his scream of despair echoing through the black deep. In this extraordinary book we come to understand the bonds of loyalty and sources of fear that define the whales' existence. Through the author's enormous knowledge of ocean life and his concern for the whale in particular, through remarkable descriptions of the sights and dramas of the sea, one is brought about as close to the experience of another animal as is possible in fiction." (Publisher's blurb).

Contents include:- Introduction; First light; Storm; Learning; Summer; Death of a hunter; Repair; The great school; Alone; Spraylash; Norway; Glowchin; Red-eye; Minch; Whaler; The shores of home; Old friends and new.