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| Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest | 
| Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 351608
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.4 x 1
ISBN: 068484558X
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.538
EAN: 9780684845586
ASIN: 068484558X
Publication Date: March 9, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 Journey of the Pink Dolphins: A terrific read! November 28, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sy Montgomery's Journey of the Pink Dolphins is by far the best book I have read during 2000. It's a unique combination of lyrical writing, high adventure, fascinating characters (cetacean and human), environmental significance, and factual information about the Amazon's past and present. The author was determined to both learn about, and experience the company of, these mysterious freshwater whales. Her quest, ultimately successful, necessitated a rigorous set of travels through the watery world of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon River Basin. Participating in this journey via the author's engaging prose is most enjoyable. I highly recommend this book!
 Good but could have been better... July 5, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a huge fan of cetaceans and river dolphins in particular...I just had to get this book. It was full of interesting accounts about the dolphins and the Amazon...but at time the story moved a little slow...and at times the language got a tad flowery and a bit cliche....I'd read it again though if i had to do it over!
I'm impressed! And I'm very picky about cetacean literature! June 21, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm usually quite disappointed in 'general' cetacean literature but this book surprised me. Very well done! Although I'm not an expert in freshwater dolphin biology, small North Pacific Odontocetes were the topic of my own MS thesis so I approach these works from a biased perspective. Loaded with marvelous black-and-white photos and sections of color photographs. I've already got this book out on loan to some of my fellow biologists down the hall at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory.
Subtitle: 1,001 similies June 4, 2000
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
I agree with other reviewers who, on the whole, enjoyed this book, but I am surprised that no one mentioned the author's distracting writing style. Though I did not undertake an exact count, there are approximately 3-4 similies per page on average, and often 2 or 3 in a single sentence. Even in the most comepelling sections of the book I found myself suddenly distracted and jerked back to "reality" by such a sentence. One particularly egregious example: ". . . You can feel the eys of men slide over your body like a tongue licking an ice-cream cone. ....... " (p.35)
steamy wilderness adventure May 4, 2000
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
It's not that I learned a lot about pink dolphins; there actually isn't a lot of info about them here. But I loved this book. Sy writes so poetically and describes the areas where she worked so vividly, that I imagined her every move and drop of sweat in this hot tropical adventure. She does inform us in great detail of many natural creatures and events around the Amazon, and I learned a lot about that part of the world. It was so delightful I never wanted the book to end. Her writing style is memorable and beautiful. I especially liked the description of "man rain" and "woman rain" and have used this concept in my conversations with people.
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