52 Blue - Leslie Jamison

Lonely. Strong. Sad. Deaf. These are all assumptions that humans put on a solo blue whale that swims up and down the North American Pacific Coast. The whale regularly called out, but as far as scientific researchers could tell, no whale ever answered. The whale, that calls at 52 hertz, approximately 35 hertz higher than other blue whales communicate, was immortalized in Leslie Jamison's e-book 52 Blue. The book tells the story of the whale, but is also about the community of humans who were inspired and given hope by the whale's isolation.