Voices in the Ocean

Since the dawn of history, humans have felt a kinship with dolphins. But these playful aquatic creatures are also mysterious: scientists still don't fully understand their sophisticated navigation and communication abilities, or their complicated brains.

In 2010, following her father's death, Susan Casey had a remarkable encounter with a pod of spinner dolphins off the coast of Maui. It inspired her on a two-year global adventure to learn about these beautiful animals....
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Since the dawn of history, humans have felt a kinship with dolphins. But these playful aquatic creatures are also mysterious: scientists still don't fully understand their sophisticated navigation and communication abilities, or their complicated brains.

In 2010, following her father's death, Susan Casey had a remarkable encounter with a pod of spinner dolphins off the coast of Maui. It inspired her on a two-year global adventure to learn about these beautiful animals. Casey visits a Hawaiian community that believes dolphins are the key to enlightenment; travels to Ireland to meet 'the world's most loyal dolphin', and visits Crete to explore the ancient Minoans' interdependence on the animals.

Yet dolphins are also the subjects of a sinister lucrative global trade. Casey's reportage takes her to the harrowing epicentre in the Solomon Islands, and to the Japanese town of Taiji, made infamous by the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, where she chronicles protests against the annual slaughter of dolphins.

In the tradition of Susan Orlean and Donovan Hohn, Voices in the Oceanis a thrilling, compassionate, imperative account of the other intelligent life on the planet.