Whale Trust Books

Face to Face with Whales by Flip and Linda Nicklin

Released May 13th, 2008
Published by National Geographic Society
Recommended Age: 7-9 years

You slip over the side of your boat, descending deep into the dark realm of the Earth’s largest creature. Then the whale starts to sing, just feet away from you. You record the sounds, hoping one day to understand their language. Their music is a rare glimpse of this majestic mammal’s unknown world. Photographer Flip Nicklin brings you face to face with whales as they communicate, nurse their young, and surface dramatically for air. Meet these intelligent, social creatures in their natural habitat; learn of the different kinds of whales, from humpbacks to belugas; discover how we can aid their recovery from years of overhunting; and how we can protect their environment.

Coming Soon

Humpback Whales: Behavior on the Hawaiian Breeding Grounds

by Jim Darling, Photographs by Flip Nicklin, Illustrations by Susan Barnes
Release Date: Fall 2008
Publisher: Granville Island Publishing

Books by Jim Darling, Ph.D.

Gray Whales.

1999. Colin Baxter Photography,
Grantown-on-Spy, Scotland. 72pp.

Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises.

1995. National Geographic Society: Washington, DC.
James D. Darling (Editor), Kenneth S. Norris (Editor),
and Flip Nicklin (Photographer).

With the Whales

1990. Northword Press. Minocqua, Wisconsin. 158 pp.

Wild Whales - Humpback, Gray and Killer Whales

1987. Summer Wild Productions, Vancouver. 96 pp.

Books by Flip Nicklin

Face to Face with Dolphins

by Flip and Linda Nicklin
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Publisher: National Geographic

Imagine you're 70 feet underwater—face to face with one of the sea's friendliest creatures. National Geographic photographer, Flip Nicklin, and his wife Linda, a naturalist and educator, invite you to study the amazing behavior of the beloved dolphin.

Learn the difference between an orca and a bottlenose dolphin. Witness a baby dolphin nursed with mother's milk. Discover how these social mammals echolocate and communicate. Flip is a veteran of 5,500 dives worldwide, and this compelling book aims to encourage active concern and support for these smiling sea creatures whose intelligence demands our kinship.