Book: "Among Giants: A Life with Whales"

Authors: "Flip" Nicklin (Author), K. M. Kostyal (Author)

It all started in 1965 with a guy riding a whale. The guy was Flip Nicklin’s father, Chuck, and the whale was an unlucky Bryde’s Whale that had gotten caught up in some anchor line. Hoping to free the whale, Chuck and some friends took their boat as near as they could, and, just before they cut it loose, Chuck posed astride it for a photo.

That image, carried on wire services nationwide, became a sensation and ultimately changed the life of Chuck’s young son, Flip. In the decades since that day, Flip Nicklin has made himself into the world’s premier cetacean photographer. It’s no exaggeration to say that his photos, published in such venues as National Geographic and distributed worldwide, have virtually defined these graceful, powerful creatures in the mind of the general public—even as they helped open new ground in the field of marine mammalogy...

Source: "Among Giants: A Life with Whales"
Author: "Flip" Nicklin

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Link: Some photos - Among The Giants: The Life Of A Whale
Link: The Ecologist October 1971: The extinction of whales?