"Joe Roman is a Harvard-trained biologist. As it turns out, he's also a fine historian and gifted writer. Whale is a delightful and rewarding book, with an interdisciplinary balance rare in literature of any kind and especially welcome here."
-Stuart Frank, Ph.D., Senior Curator, New Bedford Whaling Museum
"Well-written, fascinating. . . . This reader was much satisfied by this tasty book. . . "
-Michael Moore, Aquatic Mammals
"There's more to whales than watching them, and anyone who wants to should definitely get a copy of Whale by Joe Roman. . . . A superb chronicle of the relationship between man and beast over the centuries."
-Magazine of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
"Joe Roman is a Harvard-trained biologist. 
