Asha de Vos is a marine biologist, ocean educator, and pioneer of blue whale research in the northern Indian Ocean. An adjunct research fellow at the Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia, she is also the founder of Oceanswell, Sri Lanka's first marine conservation research and education organization. Her work has been featured in National Geographic and The New York Times and by the BBC and TED, and in 2024 she was invited to join the UN Secretary General's Scientific Advisory Board.
""The book is a wonderful compendium of information, well-written, informative, factual; enlightening and disturbing at the same time. . . . You'll need to read it more than once.""---David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds ""[De Vos] elevates the book from what it already is—a lush and vivid look at an animal family—to something that is particularly modern and current, taking traditional ‘save the whales’ messaging and working it into something more complex. If whales and their habitats are being threatened by millions of seemingly innocuous human actions, this also sends the message that millions of individuals can make a change by altering their actions.""---Casey Langton, The Indiependent