Erich Hoyt's groundbreaking 1984 work, The Whale Watcher's Handbook, helped turn whale watching into an international phenomenon, inspiring cruises and a new consciousness about that endangered species. A nature and science writer as well as a scientific researcher, Hoyt is best known for his works on whales, but he has always written widely on dolphins and insects. With over three hundred scientific and popular articles, and over a dozen books to his credit, Hoyt is internationally recognized as a specialist in marine conservation, helping to organize international conferences on managing whale watching as well as studying the orca whale in Russian waters. Hoyt spent years observing various whale species off the west coast of Canada and elsewhere and then documented his experiences in several books, including The Whale Called Killer, Seasons of the Whale: Riding the Currents of the North Atlantic, Meeting the Whales, and Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises...