The Sea Inside - Sources
1. The suburban sea
‘I have lived long enough in the Shire’ T. H. White, England Have My Bones, 1936,
18
‘The Wanderer’, Richard Hamer, editor and translator, A Choice of AngloSaxon Verse, Faber 1970, 174
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‘the sea birds bathing’, ibid, 177
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‘the ocean’s skin’ ibid, Chapter 115, The Pequod meets The Bachelor, 498
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‘a new myth of the crow’ Crow, R4, 10/12/11
‘carriers of dead men’s souls’ Sophia Kingshill & Jennifer Westwood The Fabled
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‘one-tenth’ Solent Forum Nature Conservation Group, ‘The Solent Waders and Brent
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‘being mindful of them’ Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A
21st Century Bestiary, Granta, 2012, 181
‘a seaport without the sea’s terrors’ quoted Stephanie Barczewski, ‘The Titanic and
the Port of Southampton’, Miles Taylor, editor, Southampton: gateway to the British
Empire, I. B. Tauris, 2007,115
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‘the most “alien” estuary’ Ken Collins & Jenny Mallinson, ‘Solent marine aliens’,
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‘one medieval chronicler related’ Kingsmill & Westwood, op cit, 5
‘like a dark crime’ Sylvia Plath, ‘The Moon and the Yew Tree’
‘The swan, as everyone certainly knows’ Olaus Magnus, Historia de Gentibus
Septentrionalibus, Romae 1555, Vol 111, Peter Fisher and Humphrey Higgens,
translators, Peter Foot, editor, The Hakuylt Society, 1998, 963-4
‘I simply bristle with annoyance’ Tag Barnes, Waterside Companions, Arco Books,
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‘a people whose blue eyes’ B. Peacock, A Newcastle Boyhood 1898-1914, 1986,
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‘I saw a monster rising’ ibid, 19
‘jazzed up’ ibid, 154
‘Battenburg roll and prunes’ ibid, 70
‘boiled onions served with bran’ ibid, 27
‘poached egg on nettles’ ibid, 55
‘a little cold jellied consommé straight out of the tin’ ibid, 458
‘their wet doggy faces’ ibid, 476
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‘the destroyer…let loose’ Brands, op cit, 138
2. The white sea
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‘Boating under ordinary conditions’ ibid, 122
‘The Common Porpoise’ Adams, op cit, 236
‘In 1758, a Royal Navy ship’ Richard Grogan, Island Life magazine, Issue 5,
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‘eh?’ Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, A Memoir, Macmillan, 1897, 514
‘Everybody is either a genius’ ibid, 23
‘to Athens in the time of Pericles’ Ford, op cit, 30
‘walled up from the ocean’ Adams, op cit, 189
‘How fearful / And dizzy’ King Lear ,VI: vi, 12-13
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Johnson, editor, Taylor & Francis, Futura 1982, 132
‘At the time of the wheat-harvest’ Letter XVII, 9 December 1773, Gilbert White, The
Natural History of Selborne, The Ray Society, London 1993, 166-7
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‘a profound affection’ Wilson, op cit, 254
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Wight, Isle of Wight County Press, 1992, 5
‘the moanings of the homeless sea’ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘In Memoriam’
‘Oh, there is such a glorious prospect’, Adams, op cit 189
‘It is as well, however,’ Ward Lock, op cit, 127
‘feathered apes’ Nathan J. Emery, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge,
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‘part of our rituals’ Mark Cocker, Crow Country, Jonathan Cape 2007, 5
‘The Roman founders of London’ see also Payam Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras:
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‘to and fro’ Genesis 8:8
‘even young children despise me’ Job 19:18
‘Who provides for the raven’ Job 38:41
‘You shall drink’ 1 Kings 17:5
‘Here Jacob dreames’ quoted Thomas Merton, Bread in the Wilderness, Catholic
Book Club, 1953, 51
‘in a twilight between’ de la Mare, op cit, 71
‘as one calls a cab from a rank’ Helen Waddell, Beasts and Saints , Constable, 1934,
xiii
‘St Simon of Stylites’ ibid, 23
‘In the first paradise’ ibid, xx
‘with no fear’, St Athanasius, quoted de la Mare, op cit, 273
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‘the slaughter-greedy bird’ Ibid, 149
‘The raven circled’ Ibid, 39
‘þone sweartan hræfn’ Ibid, 44
‘wælgīfre fugel’, Ibid, 148
‘sweart and sealobrūn’ Ibid, 38
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‘The waters had closed’ Ibid, 325
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‘How restful’ ibid, 262
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‘Now what can’ ibid, 177
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‘I expect to make’ ibid, 342
3. The inland sea
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Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University, 19 February 2011
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Craig Millar, Rochelle Constantine, ‘The world’s rarest whale’, Current Biology Vol
22, No.21, RG906, 6 November 2012
‘foraging in the depths’ Patricia Arranz, Natacha Aguilar de Soto, Peter T. Madsen,
Alberto Brito, Fernando Bodes, Mark P. Johnson, ‘Following a Foraging Fish-Finder:
Diel Habitat Use of Blainville’s Beaked Whales Revealed by Echolocation’, 7
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‘exosolar planet, Kepler-22b’ Lewis Dartnell, ibid,12 January 2012
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‘one well-documented case’ Dr Antonio Fernandez et al, ‘Gas and Fat Embolic
Syndrome Involving a Mass Stranding of Beaked Whales (Family Ziphiidae) Exposed
to Anthropogenic Sonar Signals’, Veterinary Pathology, 42: 446-457, 2005
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N2 levels and risk of decompression sickness in deep-, intermediate- and shallowdiving toothed whales during exposure to naval sonar, 2012, Frontiers in Aquatic
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‘The sea is not all that clean…’ Murdoch, op cit, 443
‘lost tribe’ Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Alexandros Frantzis, Luke Rendell,
‘Sperm Whales: Mediterranean Sperm Whale’, Journal of the American Cetacean
Society, Spring 2012, Vol 41, No 1, 36
‘Dr Wise's investigations’ John Pierce Wise Sr., Roger Payne, Sandra S. Wise,
Carolyne LaCerte, James Wise, Christy Gianios Jr, W. Douglas Thompson,
Christopher Perkins, Tongzhang Zheng, Cairong Zhu, Lucille Benedict, Iain Kerr, ‘A
global assessment of chromium pollution using sperm whales (Physeter
macrocephalus) as an indicator species’, Chemosphere 75 (2009), 1462; also Roger
Payne to Philip Hoare, Wellington, 14 March 2010
‘that toxic cocktail’ Sandro Mazzariol et al, ‘Sometimes Sperm Whales (Physeter
macrocephalus) Cannot Find Their Way Back to the High Seas: A Multidisciplinary
Study on a Mass Stranding’, PloS One, May 2011, Vol 6, Issue 5, 1,13
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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/08/spain-sperm-whale-death-swallowed-plastic
‘found agonizing on the shore’ ibid, 10
‘It would be impossible’ Rob Deaville to Philip Hoare, 31 October 2011
‘possess photopigments’ BBC World Service Science Now, 13 July 2012; also
‘Crittervision: The world as animals see (and sniff) it’ New Scientist, 20 August 2011,
34
‘geomagnetic valleys’, M. Klinowska, ‘Cetacean live stranding relate to geomagnetic
disturbance’, AquaticMammals Vol 11 (1), 1985; but see also Marine Mammal
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‘aurorae borealis and australis’ Simon Woodings, ‘A Plausible Physical Cause for
Strandings’, Bsc thesis, University of Western Australia, 1995, 7
‘Japan and New Zealand’ ‘197 beached pilot whales die’, The Independent, 22
February 2011; ‘Rescuers save 22 melon-headed whales’ UPI report, 6 March 2011,
upi.com, accessed 4 May 2011
‘Though this fish’ Moby-Dick, Chapter 32, Cetology, 142
‘It’s sexy to be white’ Karin Hartman to Philip Hoare, Pico, 8 July 2011
‘Hal Whitehead tells me’ Hal Whitehead to Philip Hoare, Plymouth, 19 February
2011
‘Sperm whales are nomads’ Hal Whitehead, ‘Sperm Whales: Capture Me’, Journal of
the American Cetacean Society, op cit, 4
‘post-hunting, global population’ Hal Whitehead, Sperm Whales: Social Evolution in
the Ocean, University of Chicago Press, 2005, 206
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N. P. Wong, D. Engelhaupt, Luke Rendell, 2012, ‘Multilevel societies of female
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5. The sea of serendipity
‘The birds may come’ ‘Author’s Note’, Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of
Appetite, New Directions, 1968
‘Their lunar assemblies’ David K. Caldwell, Melba C. Caldwell, Dale W. Rice,
‘Behaviour of the Sperm Whale, Physeter catodon L.’; Kenneth S. Norris, editor,
Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises: Proceedings of the First International Symposium
on Cetacean Research, Washington, DC, August 1963, University of California Press
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‘Roman maps’ Asha de Vos, The Sri Lankan Blue Whale Project blog,
whalessrilanka.blogspot.com/2011/07/whales-of-taprobane-words-and-pictures
‘banished by nature’ Pliny, Natural History VI, 81-91, livingheritage.com/taprobane
‘gathering roots’ Magnus, op cit, 1109
‘Asha de Vos’ Asha de Vos to Philip Hoare, Weligama, 7 February 2011
‘He is seldom seen’ Moby-Dick, Chapter 32, Cetology, 142
‘Hero of Social Labour’ Yulia V. Ivashchenko, Phillip Clapham, Robert L. Brownell,
Jr., ‘Soviet illegal whaling: the Devil and the details’, Marine Fisheries Review, 73
(3), 1-19, 2011, Marman Digest, 4 January 2012; also ‘Valentine Orilokova, World
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‘some friend of science’ Norris, op cit, 4
‘working for the enemy’, D. Graham Burnett, Sounding the Whale: Science and
Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century, University of Chicago Press, 665
‘were always making discoveries’ Brewers’, op cit, 928
‘Count de Mauny-Talvande’ www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/
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‘Maurice's hasty departure’ Christopher Ondaatjie, ‘Count de Mauny Island’,
http://www.nation.lk/2010/03/28/eyefea3.htm
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/history.html
‘a red granite rock’ www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/ count_de_mauny.html,
accessed 13 June 2012
‘garden of delights’ James S. Romm, The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought:
Geography, Exploration, and Fiction, Princeton University Press, 1992, ‘Ultima
Thule and Beyond’,133, n 30
‘echoes of the Italian lakes’ Ondaatjie, ‘Count de Mauny Island’, op cit
‘the vast Indian Ocean’ www.taprobaneisland.com/history.html
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‘tiny dome-shaped island’ Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, An Invisible Spectator: A
Biography of Paul Bowles, Bloomsbury, 1989, 291
'From a certain point’ ibid, 294
‘an embodiment’ Paul Bowles, ‘How to to live on a part-time island,’ Holiday
magazine, March 1957, www.paulbowles.org/taprobane.html, accessed 9 October
2012
‘Life moved like clockwork’, Paul Bowles, ‘An Island of My Own’,
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‘demons of pain’ Holiday magazine, March 1957, op cit
‘a floating boulder’, Paul Bowles, ‘An Island of My Own’, op cit
‘She particularly objected’ Millicent Dillon, A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work
of Jane Bowles, Virago, 1988, 259
‘According to one writer’ Richard Hill, ‘Taprobane’,
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‘measuring 5.5’ Juan Pablo Gallo-Reynoso, Janitzo Égido-Villarreal & Guadolupe
Martínez-Villalba, 2011, ‘Reaction of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) to an
earthquake’, Bioacoustics, 20: 317-330, Marine Mammal Digest
6. The southern sea
‘We cannot think’ T. S. Eliot, ‘The Dry Salvages’, Four Quartets, Faber & Faber,
1944
‘very bad old offender’ Archive Office of Tasmania, digitised record, CON 31/1/33,
http://search.archives.tas.gov.au, accessed 15 July 2012
‘At night, at lockdown’, Margaret Spence, Hampshire and Australia, 1783-1791:
Crime and Transportation, ‘Hampshire Papers’ series, Issue No. 2, Hampshire Record
Office, 1992, 10
‘Georgian jails’ Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, Pan Books, 1988, 39
‘good’ CON 31/1/31, op cit
‘five prisoners sharing’ ‘Convict Ships’, The Times, 23 August 1846, courtesy Angela
Barrett
‘in a fit of lunacy’ www.jenwillets.com/ConvictShipsJKL, accessed 18 July 2012
‘a mill for grinding’ Hughes, op cit, 383
‘Place of Ultra Banishment’ ibid, 371
‘7 November 1831’ et seq, Archive Office of Tasmania, op cit, CON 31/1/31
‘Had its brothers’ Jorgen Jorgensen, James Francis Hogan, editor, The Convict King,
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‘named simply Beach’ Hughes, op cit, 47
‘Every blockhead’ ‘The Artists on James Cook’s Expeditions’, Rudiger Joppien,
James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, Thames & Hudson, 2009, 112
‘Captain Cook Wallpaper’ ibid, 116
‘it is too absurd’ Popular Science Monthly, September 1892, Vol 41, No. 42, 578,
google books, 30/9/12
‘my field guide’ Hadoram Shirihai & Brett Jarrett, Whales, Dolphins & Seals: A Field
Guide to the Marine Mammals of the World, A & C Black, 2006, 283
‘a regal, feathery thing’ Moby-Dick, Chapter 42, The Whiteness of the Whale, 192
‘observing, in one’ George Shelvocke, A Voyage Round The World by Way of the
Great South Sea, Senex, Longman, et al, 1726, 72-3, google books, accessed 20
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‘slow-wave sleep’ Niels C. Rattenbourg, ‘Do birds sleep in flight?’,
Naturwissenschaften, 2006, Vol 93, No 9, 413-425, www.springerlink.com, accessed
23 October 2012
‘olfactory seascape’ Gabrielle A. Nevitt, Francesco Bonadonna, ‘Sensitivity to
dimethyl sulphide suggests a mechanism for olfactory navigation by seabirds’ Biology
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‘they are susceptible’ John P. Croxall, Stuart M. Butchart, Ben Lascelles, Alison J.
Stattersfield, Ben Sullivan, Andy Symes, Phil Taylor, ‘Seabird conservation status,
threats and priority actions: a global assessment, Bird Conservation International
(2012) 22:1-34
‘Captain Flinders’ Reverend John West, History of Tasmania, H. Dowling,
Tasmania, 1850, 330-1
‘an act of courtesy’ Singing Up the Whales, Uncle Max Dulumumun Harrison, film
interview, Peter McConchie, 2012
'If it were possible’, West, op cit, 23-4
‘more patronizing than courteous’ J. E. Calder, quoted Vivienne Rae-Ellis, Trucanini:
Queen or Traitor, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1981, google books,
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‘‘rank very low’ N. J. B. Plomley, ed., Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals
and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834, Tasmanian Historical
Research Association, 1966 / Quintus, 2008, 88, quoted Cassandra Pybus,
unpublished MS, 18
‘Truggernana / A native’ Michael Desmond, ‘Black and White History’, Portrait 32,
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‘They were within sight’ ibid, 74
‘He told the sergeant’ The Saturday Magazine, 16 Feb 1833, quoted
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‘William Lodewyk Crowther’ Crowther, W.E.L.H., ‘Crowther, William Lodewyk
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‘told to amputate’ Helen MacDonald, Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of
Anatomy, Melbourne University Press, 2010, 140, google books, 22 December 2011
‘carried to his grave’ Susan Lawrence, Whalers and Free Men: Life on Tasmania’s
colonial whaling stations, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006, 26
‘and followed’ The Times, 29 May 1869
‘placid and beautifully quiet’ MacDonald, Possessing the Dead, op cit, 140
‘The Last of Her Race’ ibid, 151, quoting Tasmanian Times
‘of a truly singular’ The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 21 April
1805
‘Paterson's interests’ Macmillan, David S, ‘Paterson, William (1755-1810)’,
Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian
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‘survived in Tasmania’ S. McOrist, A. C. Kitchenor, D. L. Obendorf, ‘Skin Lesions
in Two Preserved Thylacines: Thylacinus Cynocephalus’, Australian Mammal
Society, August 1993, Vol 16, Part I, 81
‘It is very evident’ The Sydney Gazette, op cit, 21 April 1805
‘near resemblance to the wolf’ George Prideaux Harris, 12 February 1804, Barbara
Hamilton-Arnold, Letters and Papers of G.P.Harris 1803-1812, 1994, quoted ‘The
Abject Thylacine’, Imagining the Thylacine: From Trap to Laboratory, University of
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R.Paddle, The Last Tasmanian Tiger, Cambridge University Press 2000, 26
‘The Aborigines report’ Joseph Milligan, Remarks upon the habits of wombats…,
1853, 310, quoted Paddle, op cit,50
‘which both commit’ West, History of Tasmania, op cit, 323
‘a distemper-like disease’, see McOrist et al, ‘Skin Lesions…’, op cit, 81
‘Hobart’s zoo’ see David Bressan, ‘The Last Thylacine’, Scientific American blog, 7
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218
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View, 341
‘Mr Darwin’s Bulldog’ Keith Williams, ‘Thomas Henry Huxley’, Wellcome History,
Issue 49, Spring 2012, 2; also E. Royston Pike, ‘Thomas Huxley’, Canning, op cit,
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Jan 2001, 7, Oxford Museum of Natural History collection
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‘It stared at me’ ibid, 10-11
‘No wonder’ ibid, 14
‘pervasive aroma’ Paddle, op cit, 49
‘As I swept the beam’ ‘History: Extinction vs Survival’, Cameron R. Campbell, op cit
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Derek Mahon, ‘The Banished Gods’, New Collected Poems, The Gallery Press, 2011
‘Arthur C. Clarke’, quoted Simon Winchester, Atlantic: A vast ocean of a million
stories, Harper Press, 2011, 34
‘the oldest water’ Roberts, op cit, 68-9
‘three-quarters are yet’ ‘At least One-Third of Marine Species Remain Undescribed’,
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129
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Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol 23, No. 91, 1914, 176-180,
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‘hwælweg’ ‘The Seafarer’, Harmer, op cit,190-1
‘Earl Siward of Northumbria’ see Bernd Brunner, Bears: a brief history, Yale, 2007,
26
‘said to be of magic birth’ Charles Kingsley, adapted by F. H. Lee, The Children’s
Hereward, Harrap & Co.,1959, 13-14
‘till a creature’ Brunner, op cit,16
‘the land more fearful’ see Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau: A Sea and its
Meanings, Vintage, New York, 2000, 103
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Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto / Vancouver 1979, 80
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also interview with Ihimaera, ‘World Service Book Club’, BBC World Service, 8
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‘a moa hunt’ Atholl Anderson, ‘On Evidence for Survival of Moa in European
Fiordland’, New Zealand Journal of Ecology, Vol 12, Supplement, 1989, www.
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‘in their natural state’ Jon Ablett to Philip Hoare, Natural History Museum, 2
September 2011
‘Many are having sex’ Mike Donoghue to Philip Hoare, Kaikoura, 18 March 2010
‘Al says’ Alastair Judkins to Philip Hoare, Kaikoura, 18 March 2010
‘two thousand clicks’ Henderson, op cit, 61-2
‘males will even insert’ ibid, 58
‘one of the oldest’ International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List,
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‘inexpressible, strange eyes’ Moby-Dick, Chapter 42, The Whiteness of the Whale,
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‘for fear his friend and protector should be carried away from him’.
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