“One of our most thoughtful and imaginative writers on natural history… a stunning fit between science and art.”
— Houston Chronicle
“Informative… entertaining… Ms. Ackerman has a gift for sparkling, resonant language, and her descriptions of various animals and their habitats are alive with verbal energy and delight …fascinating.”
— The New York Times
“Once in a while you forget, when reading Diane Ackerman’s prose, that you’re reading ‘nature writing.’ One becomes immersed in an essay, cruising along with this woman’s unfolding adventure…. By mingling a narrative of her experience with the study of the lives of animals, she reminds us that not only she is connected, intimately, to the worlds of animals, we all are.”
— Detroit Free Press
“The Moon by Whale Light is passionate, well-written journalism …. Ackerman’s effervescent prose… conveys the rapture she feels when engaging with another creature’s being.”
— Cleveland Plain Dealer