"[A] majestic look at the barbaric heyday of commercial whaling in the Antarctic Ocean and the lingering consequences for its practitioners and the planet." --Cory Oldweiler, Boston Globe "Remarkable. A heart-scalding, excruciatingly detailed account of life on the 20th century industrial whaling ships that roamed the Southern Ocean. Highly recommended." --The Vancouver Sun "Urgent and moving." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED review "[E]ngrossing.Part memoir, part environmental study, and part history text, The Two-Headed Whale evokes the drama and beauty of life at sea. It also captures the nobility of Earth's largest mammals and the devastation wrought by the whaling industry.

-- Foreword Reviews "Winterbottom captures, like nothing else I've read, the ambiguities that Antarctica inveigles into the traveller's heart and mind. Her superb descriptions of daily life on a whaler have the sharp tang of immediacy." --John Harrison, author of Forgotten Footprints "A moving exploration of the historical imagination. Sandy Winterbottom reaches down--into herself, into the past, into the deep sea and finds heart-struck tragedy, the fabulous glory of the natural world, and that siren yearn of simple mystery that keeps us, all, searching. So much has been lost. Here is a journey that wrests a small and precious gift from oblivion." --D. Graham Burnett, author of Trying Leviathan and The Sounding of the Whale " The Two-Headed Whale challenges preconceptions of the Antarctic, splicing in themes of colonialism and capitalism and their links to both environmental and human exploitation.

" -- The Sunday Post "A triumph of research. A moving and compassionate eulogy for a young man who, without Winterbottom, would have remained anonymous and unremembered." -- The Herald.