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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Austin, Bryant, photographer.
Beautiful whale / Bryant Austin ; foreword by Sylvia A. Earle.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-4197-0384-3
eISBN 978-1-68335-554-0
1.
Whales—Pictorial works. 2.
Underwater photography. 3.
Photography, Close-up.
4.
Austin, Bryant.
I. Title.
TR729.M37A87 2013
778.7'3—dc23
2012028056
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Humpback Whale Fluke IV
(whale resting), October 11, 2006.