Children's
Inland
The True Story of a North Atlantic Humpback Whale
The True Story of a North Atlantic Humpback Whale
This is the true story
of a humpback whale named Inland, and the people who came to know her during
the autumn she spent close to shore in Salem, Massachusetts.
After thrilling crowds in Salem for several weeks, Inland swam out to sea in late December, 2000. Researchers soon lost track of her as she migrated south for the winter. In April 2001, researchers in Massachusetts learned that Inland died after getting tangled in fishing gear off the Virginia coast. The Whale Center of New England created a silver lining from the cloud of Inland's death by recovering her skeleton and hiring Maine scientist, Dan DenDanto, to undertake the process of reassembling it at the Center's headquarters. There, it now serves as an effective tool--telling Inland's story and teaching visitors about humpbacks, the threats they face, and how to help. 5% of book sales will benefit The Whale Center of New England |
Lisa Capone was a
professional journalist for more than 20 years before becoming Press Secretary
for the Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in February
2007. In addition to the Boston Globe, she has had articles
published in numerous newspapers and magazines, including Teacher, Animals,
The Boston Parents Paper, The Gulf of Maine Times, Outdoors, E - The
Environmental Magazine, and Conservation Sciences (for five years
she was managing editor of this quarterly journal published by the Manomet
Center for Conservation Sciences in southeastern Massachusetts).
She was also author of The ConservationWorks Book, published
in 1991 by AMC Books.
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