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People, fish, and whales : [the Vancouver Aquarium story] / Murray A. Newman with John Nightingale.
- Title
- People, fish, and whales : [the Vancouver Aquarium story] / Murray A. Newman with John Nightingale.
- Author
- Newman, Murray A., 1924-
- Publication
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub., c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QL79.C22 V367 2006 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Nightingale, John, Dr.
- Description
- 88 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 28 cm.
- Summary
- "Entertaining, educational, and packed with full-colour photography, People, Fish and Whales tells how a small, community-owned aquarium that opened in 1956 with seven staff, a curator fresh out of university, no cash register and no money, grew into one of the world's great biological institutions. Dr. Murray Newman, who served as head of the Vancouver Aquarium for 37 years, offers a look behind the scenes at one of the world's great aquariums, delivering an ark-load of stories about such things as the alligator who secretly collected coins; the sea otter who liked his lovemaking rough and often; the studious killer whale who liked to read books, as long as they were about killer whales; and the time the Queen of England forgot herself in the Amazon Gallery."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Vancouver Aquarium story
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : the little aquarium that could / John Nightingale -- 1. People -- 2. Fish -- 3. Whales -- 4. Behind the scenes -- Vancouver Aquarium in a changing world / John Nightingale.
- ISBN
- 1550173820 (pbk.)
- 9781550173826 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007367023
- OCLC
- 64670407
- 170060337
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library