The Year of the Whale

Science & Math

Scheffer, Victor B.

Biological Sciences

Souvenier Press

Spires of form: Glimpses of evolution

Lyons & Burford

University of Washington Press

Victor Scheffer writes of a social revolution. Environmentalism began as a revelation that the resources supporting life are limited and that men and women can--if they act wisely and soon--reduce their material demands and their numbers before limits are reached and the richness of human existence is diminished forever. The revelation grew into a revolution driven by a morality of life or death for the human race.Environmentalism is not a word deeply rooted in the American vernacular. It was seldom used before the appearance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, although warnings about the environment had been sounded earlier. It has roots in conservation--the preservation and careful use of natural resources--and in ecology--the study of the relastionships between these roots. It describes areas of major concern to environmentalists in the sixties and seventies, ranging from wasted croplands and forests through endangered species to birth control. It reports progress on three fronts: educational, legal, and political. Richly anecdotal, the book is an informal history of a generation of aroused citizens who began to see their outdoor surroundings--and indeed all of Planet Earth--in a new light.The formative years of the movement-1960 to 1980-are central to the narrative. By 1980 environmentalism as a social science, a field of political management, a philosophy, and to many a religion, was firmly in place. The movement met with notable setbacks during the Reagan years, however, and Scheffer concludes his narrative with an epilogue highlighting environmental events from 1981 to 1989.Although veterans of the movement will find much in the book familiar territory, they will welcome the broad coverage of crises, decisions, and laws that set the stage for environmental victories. As a new generation joins the environmental movement, the book will help them understand the moral impetus that gave birth to environmentalism and the public awareness and concern for change that grew with the movement.

The Shaping of Environmentalism in America

Business & Money

Economics

A voice for wildlife

Scribner

Recalling his fifty years as a wildlife zoologist specializing in marine mammals, Scheffer tells of travels to Antarctica and the Pribilof Islands and explains the role of the zoologist in wildlife management

Adventures of a Zoologist

Biographies & Memoirs

Encore Editions

A fictional account of a newborn sea otter rescued off the California coast describes the devotion of marine researchers fighting to protect the sea otter from extinction

The Amazing Sea Otter

Children's Books

Atheneum

The author, a natural scientist presents a fictional account, based on scientific data, of the first twelve months in the life of a sperm whale calf

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Pp. x, 179; 32 full page photo-plates. Publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black on the spine, printed pictorial dust jacket, 8vo (23 x 15cm). According to the jacket flap, this is the first systematic treatment of the pinnipeds. Inscribed and signed by the author to Bob Owen on the front endpaper.

Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses: A Review of the Pinnipedia

Stanford University Press

Pictorial Trade 1977 Trade Paperback, Seashore Photo Essay. Publisher: Pacific Search Press /nature (1977) (Seattle, Washington). ©1976, 1977. Printed in USA. Not a remainder. LCCN: 77-78280; ISBN: 091471824X. Title Messages from the Shore (Trade Paperback) (1977) by Victor B Scheffer (Text Author and Photography); Lou Rivera (Designer); 9.0w x 8.0 x 0.3 in. [22.8w x 22.3 x 0.5 cm.]. 80 pages, incl., Action for Conservation, Further reading, Other Titles from Pacific Press.

Messages from the shore

Pacific Search Press

Twelve months in the life of an Alaskan fur seal stunningly illuminate the habits, adaptations and life processes of these creatures

The Year of the Seal

Lyons Pr

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