SOUNDINGS: JOURNEYING NORTH/ COMPANY OF WHALES (PB)

From the lagoons of Mexico to Arctic glaciers, grey whale mothers are swimming with their calves, past predatory orcas, through a warming sea. For ten thousand miles, they endure one of the longest mammalian migrations on the planet. Following them, by bus, train and ferry, are Doreen Cunningham and her toddler Max, in pursuit of a wild hope: that their family of two can make it by themselves. Doreen first visited Alaska as a young BBC journalist reporting on climate change among indigenous whaling communities, then, drawn deeply into an Inupiaq family and an ill-fated love affair, she joined the bowhead whale hunt out on the sea ice. Years later, now a single mother living in a hostel, Doreen embarks on this extraordinary journey: following the grey whale migration back to the Arctic, where greys and bowheads meet at the melting apex of our planet.