Hints and tips:
...For their Arctic adventure, they chose Ilimanaq, an isolated village with about 50 inhabitants and an unknown number of Greenland Dogs....
...His producer credits last year included Lamborghini — The Man Behind The Legend, Johnny Puff: Secret Mission, and Tell It Like A Woman (Oscar-nominated in the best original song category)....
...But the Whale river felt like a journey to a time when humanity didn’t exist at all....
...Also included here are poems including “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” and “Journey of the Magi”, all of which will repay repeated listening....
...“The planet will never come alive for you”, Ghosh urges, “unless your songs and stories give life to all the beings, seen and unseen, that inhabit a living Earth.”...
...The 1970 album Songs of the Humpback Whale was the best-selling nature record of all time. Studies show that we share rhythm with insects and melody with birds....
...The dinosaur dominated the central hall from 1905 to 2017, when it was replaced by the skeleton of a Blue Whale, named Hope....
...Someone had written in pencil “whale” in the fold-line, as if it were always there — a Moby-Dick forever loitering in the chasm....
...Day trips by jetboat from Gillam cost C$630 per person with Nelson River Adventures...
...The songs, she said, mimicked the sounds of nature — the wind, mosquitoes, whales — and a pair of singers would face one another, inches apart, one leading, the other trying to follow the song’s cadences...
...From there I flew to Queenstown, the more or less undisputed global capital of adventure and adrenalin....
...Details Will Hide was a guest of KE Adventure Travel (keadventure.com), which acts as an agent for Oceanwide Expeditions, and easyJet (easyjet.com)....
...And it’s there in the people singing Spanish-language songs outside their houses on lazy Sunday afternoons....
...As for his Vox Balaenae, inspired by the taped “songs” of humpback whales, pianist, cellist and flautist were required to wear black face-masks and variously sing, whistle and wail....
...Mr Feldstein has a better vantage point than most into the “London whale”, a trader in the bank’s chief investment office that will be the subject of fresh scrutiny on Friday at a hearing of the US Senate...
...“Minke whale,” says Sonja. And the meat? “It’s …what’s the word in English? A baby horse – a foal!”...
...Although the first years of its Hollywood adventure were a struggle, Sony persisted and over the last 15 years has become one of the industry’s most bankable studios, scoring global hits such as the Spider-Man...
...It’s a real romp, with interactive song and dance numbers and evocative effects – storms and whale chases and so on – that capture a grand sense of wonder....
..."Whale!," shouted management consultant John Gregson from the cockpit of our 50ft Bermudan sloop and the crew scrambled for their cameras as skipper Alden Sprauve steadied the wheel....
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