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Greenland's Winter Whales: the Beluga, the Narwhal and the Bowhead Whale.

Publication: Arctic
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Greenland's Winter Whales: the Beluga, the Narwhal and the Bowhead Whale.(Book review)

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GREENLAND'S WINTER WHALES: THE BELUGA, THE NARWHAL AND THE BOWHEAD WHALE. By MADS PETER HEIDE-JORGENSEN and KRISTIN LAIDRE. Edited by BRITT-MARIE JESPERSEN. Nuuk, Greenland: Ilinniusiorfik Undervisningsmiddelforlag, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-87-7975-300-6. 125 p., maps, b & w and colour illus., further reading, index. Softbound. Available online at . DKK 149.00; Eurol8.63.

This book, like an earlier volume, The Walrus in Greenland, by Erik Born, was written as part of a series intended to inform and educate the Greenlandic public on harvested wildlife species. It will be of interest, however, to numerous people outside Greenland. To that end, it has been published in English, in Danish (as Gronlands Vinterhvaler: Hvidhvalen, narhvalen og gronlandshvalen), and in Greenlandic (as Kalaallit Nunaanni ukiumi arferit: Qilalugaq qaqortaq, qilalugaq qernertaq arfivillu).

Few people would be as qualified as these authors to write a book on Greenland's whales. Over the past decade, Drs. Heide-Jorgensen and Laidre have published extensively on the cetaceans of West Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic, and these studies form the basis for this book. The subject matter covers three species of Arctic whales: the...

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