What We Are Reading Today: ‘Wild Orcas’

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Updated 10 July 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Wild Orcas’

Author:  Hanne Strager & Catherine Denardo

Of the world’s iconic predatory species, orcas are among the most fearsome. Their awesome physical power combined with their cooperative hunting skills and ability to problem-solve make them uniquely efficient killers. Yet orcas also celebrate births, grieve losses, and maintain lifelong family bonds. This stunningly illustrated book draws on five decades of field research and cutting-edge science to provide an incomparable look at the biology, natural history, culture, and conservation of these awe-inspiring marine animals. 

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

Updated 21 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

Spanning almost all of Nevada and Utah and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming, the sparsely populated regions of the Great Basin and the Basin and Range Province have stories to tell—stories intimate and vast, familial, historical, and geological.

“In Silence So Deep It Rings,” renowned landscape photographer Laura McPhee challenges the tradition of nineteenth-century survey photography, capturing the sheer beauty and depth of the West while conveying what has since occurred on the surface of the land.