"From space, the planet is blue. From space, the planet is the territory not of humans, but of the whale. Blue seas cover seven-tenths of the earth's surface, and are the domain of the largest brain ever created, with a fifty-million-year-old smile. ~ Thus begins Heathcote Williams's stunning and powerful Whale Nation, an astonishing evocation in verse and pictures of whales and dolphins, the ocean, the earth, and the universe." (...)
